Job 35 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Elihu Condemns Job

Job 35:1

Job 35:1And Elihu answered and said:

Job 35:2

Job 35:2“Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’

Job 35:3

Job 35:3that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

Job 35:4

Job 35:4I will answer you
and your friends with you.

Job 35:5

Job 35:5Look at the heavens, and see;
and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

Job 35:6

Job 35:6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Job 35:7

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

Job 35:8

Job 35:8Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.

Job 35:9

Job 35:9“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;
they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.[fn]

Job 35:10

Job 35:10But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,

Job 35:11

Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

Job 35:12

Job 35:12There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.

Job 35:13

Job 35:13Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty regard it.

Job 35:14

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

Job 35:15

Job 35:15And now, because his anger does not punish,
and he does not take much note of transgression,[fn]

Job 35:16

Job 35:16Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”

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ESV Footnotes

(35:9)

Or the many

(35:15)

Theodotion, Symmachus (compare Vulgate); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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Job 35 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Elihu Condemns Job

ESV Footnotes

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