AFV2020 - Job - 35

35:1  And Elihu answered and said,

35:2  "Do you think this to be right, you that say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?

35:3  For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

35:4  I will answer your words, and your companions with you.

35:5  Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you.

35:6  If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

35:7  If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

35:8  Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

35:9  By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out because of the powerful arm of the mighty.

35:10  But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night;

35:11  Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?'

35:12  There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers.

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

35:14  How much less when you say you do not see Him! The cause is before Him; you must wait for Him.

35:15  And now because it is not so, He has visited in anger yet he does not understand even his great extremity.

35:16  Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies his words without knowledge."