Elihu’s Third Speech64
35:1 Then Elihu answered:
35:2 “Do you think this to be1 just:
when2 you say, ‘My right before God.’3
35:3 But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’4
and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’5
and to your friends with you.
35:5 Gaze at the heavens and see;
consider the clouds, which are higher than you!8
35:6 If you sin, how does it affect God?9
If your transgressions are many,
what does it do to him?10
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give to God,
or what does he receive from your hand?
35:8 Your wickedness affects only11 a person like yourself,
and your righteousness only other people.12
35:9 “People13 cry out
because of the excess of oppression;14
they cry out for help
because of the power15 of the mighty.16
35:10 But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator,
who gives songs in the night,17
35:11 who teaches us18 more than19 the wild animals of the earth,
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
35:12 Then20 they cry out—but he does not answer—
because of the arrogance of the wicked.
35:13 Surely it is an empty cry21—God does not hear it;
the Almighty does not take notice of it.
when you say that you do not perceive him,
that the case is before him
and you are waiting for him!22
35:15 And further,23 when you say
that his anger does not punish,24
and that he does not know transgression!25
35:16 So Job opens his mouth to no purpose;26
without knowledge he multiplies words.”
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