Job 35:1
Moreover Elihu answered, and said,
Job 35:2
What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?
Job 35:3
That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?
Job 35:4
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
Job 35:5
Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
Job 35:6
If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?
Job 35:7
If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?
Job 35:8
Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is a son of man.
Job 35:9
Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10
But none says, Where is God my maker who gives 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 heavens?
Job 35:12
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 35:13
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.
Job 35:14
How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!
Job 35:15
But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,
Job 35:16
so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.