GodsWord - Job - 35

35:1  Elihu continued to speak to Job and his friends,

35:2  "Do you think this is right when you say, 'My case is more just than God's,'

35:3  when you ask, 'What benefit is it to you?' and, 'What would I gain by sinning?'

35:4  I will answer you and your friends.

35:5  "Look at the heavens and see. Observe the clouds high above you.

35:6  If you've sinned, what effect can you have on God? If you've done many wrongs, what can you do to him?

35:7  If you're righteous, what can you give him, or what can he get from you?

35:8  Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself. Your righteousness affects only the descendants of Adam.

35:9  The weight of oppression makes them cry out. The power of mighty people makes them call for help.

35:10  But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Creator, who inspires songs in the night,

35:11  who teaches us more than he teaches the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'

35:12  Then they cry out, but he doesn't answer them because of the arrogance of those evil people.

35:13  "Surely, God doesn't listen to idle complaints. The Almighty doesn't even pay attention to them.

35:14  Although you say that you pay attention to him, your case is in front of him, but you'll have to wait for him.

35:15  And now you say that his anger doesn't punish anyone and he isn't too concerned about evil.

35:16  Job opens his mouth for no good reason and talks a lot without having any knowledge."