- Then Elihu said:
- "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,[1] and what do I gain by not sinning?'
- "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.
- 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?
- Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
- "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,
- who teaches us more than he teaches[2] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than[3] the birds in the sky?'
- 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.
- 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.[4]
- So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."
Job 35
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