Jubilee2000 - Job - 35

35:1  Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,

35:2  Dost thou think this to be right, [when] thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?

35:3  For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? [And], What profit shall I have, [if] I am cleansed] from my sin?

35:4  I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.

35:5  Look unto the heavens and see; and behold the heavens [which] are higher than thou.

35:6  If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or [if] thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

35:7  If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?

35:8  Thy wickedness [shall hurt] a man as thou [art]; and thy righteousness [shall profit] the son of man.

35:9  By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

35:10  But no one shall say, Where [is] God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

35:11  who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

35:12  There they shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

35:13  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty look upon it.

35:14  For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, [submit to] judgment before him, and trust thou in him.

35:15  But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;

35:16  therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.: