Job 35

^{Job 35:1} And Elihu went on to say:

^{Job 35:2} “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

^{Job 35:3} For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

^{Job 35:4} I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

^{Job 35:5} Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

^{Job 35:6} If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

^{Job 35:7} If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

^{Job 35:8} Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

^{Job 35:9} Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

^{Job 35:10} But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

^{Job 35:11} who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

^{Job 35:12} There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

^{Job 35:13} Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

^{Job 35:14} How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

^{Job 35:15} and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

^{Job 35:16} So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”