Job 35

Elihu Sharply Rebukes Job

1Then Elihu continued and said,2“Do you think this is in accordance with 1justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?3For you say, ‘2What advantage will it be to 3You? 4What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’4I will answer you, And your friends with you.55Look at the heavens and see; And look at 6the clouds--they are higher than you.6If you have sinned, 7what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?7If you are righteous, 8what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?8Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

9“Because of the 9multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm 10of the mighty.10But 11no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who 12gives songs in the night,11Who 13teaches us more than the animals of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’12There 14they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil people.1315God certainly will not listen to 16an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.14How much less when 17you say you do not look at Him, The 18case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!15And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged 19wrongdoing well,16So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words 20without knowledge.”