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Passage Lookup: Job 35

N84New International Version (1984)
NIVNew International Version
Then Elihu said:
Job 35:1
Then Elihu said:
"Do you think this is just? You say, 'I will be cleared by God. '
Job 35:2
"Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.'
Yet you ask him, 'What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
Job 35:3
Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?'
"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
Job 35:4
"I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
Job 35:5
Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
Job 35:6
If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
Job 35:8
Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
"Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
Job 35:9
"People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
Job 35:10
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
Job 35:11
who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?'
He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Job 35:12
He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
Job 35:13
Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
Job 35:14
How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
Job 35:15
and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."
Job 35:16
So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."
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