Job 35:1
And Elihu went on to say:
Job 35:2
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Job 35:3
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Job 35:4
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Job 35:5
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Job 35:6
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Job 35:7
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Job 35:8
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Job 35:9
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Job 35:10
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us 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 air?’
Job 35:12
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Job 35:13
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Job 35:14
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
Job 35:15
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Job 35:16
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”