Job 35 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Job 35:1And Elihu made answer and said,

Job 35:2Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

Job 35:3What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

Job 35:4I will make answer to you and to your friends:

Job 35:5Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

Job 35:6If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

Job 35:7If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

Job 35:8Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

Job 35:9Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

Job 35:10But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

Job 35:11Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

Job 35:12There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

Job 35:13But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Job 35:14How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

Job 35:15And now ... ;

Job 35:16And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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