35:1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
35:2 Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My
righteousness [is] more than God's?
35:3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? [and],
What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?
35:4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which]
are higher than thou.
35:6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy
transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?
35:7 If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what
receiveth he from thy hand?
35:8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy
righteousness [may profit] the son of man.
35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the
oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the
mighty.
35:10 But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs
in the night;
35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and
maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
35:12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the
pride of evil men.
35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty
regard it.
35:14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet]
judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.
35:15 But now, because [it is] not [so], he hath visited in his
anger; yet he knoweth [it] not in great extremity:
35:16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth
words without knowledge.
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