【Job】Chapter 35 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

35:1 Then Elihu proceeded and said:

35:2 Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"

35:3 To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"

35:4 I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.

35:5 Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.

35:6 If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?

35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?

35:8 Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.

35:9 In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,

35:10 Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,

35:11 Taught us rather than the beasts of the earth, and made us wise rather than the birds of the heavens?"

35:12 Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.

35:13 But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.

35:14 Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.

35:15 But now that you have done otherwise, God’s anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.

35:16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.

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