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Job 35 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Elihu Sharply Rebukes Job

Job 35:1

Then Elihu continued and said,

Job 35:2

“Do you think this is in accordance with justice?

Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

Job 35:3

“For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to [fn]You?

What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

Job 35:4

“I will answer you,

And your friends with you.

Job 35:5

“Look at the heavens and see;

And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.

Job 35:6

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?

And if your wrongdoings are many, what do you do to Him?

Job 35:7

“If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,

Or what does He receive from your hand?

Job 35:8

“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,

And your righteousness is for a son of man.

Job 35:9

“Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;

They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Job 35:10

“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,

Who gives songs in the night,

Job 35:11

Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth

And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Job 35:12

“There they cry out, but He does not answer

Because of the pride of evil people.

Job 35:13

“God certainly will not listen to [fn]an empty cry,

Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Job 35:14

“How much less when you say you do not look at Him,

The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

Job 35:15

“And now, because He has not avenged His anger,

Nor has He acknowledged [fn]wrongdoing well,

Job 35:16

So Job opens his mouth with empty words;

He multiplies words without knowledge.”

NASB20 Footnotes
Or me
Or falsehood
Or arrogance
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