Job 35 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 35:1

Job 35:1Then Elihu said:

Job 35:2

Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

Job 35:3

Job 35:3Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[fn] and what do I gain by not sinning?’

Job 35:4

Job 35:4“I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.

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Job 35:5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.

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Job 35:6If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that 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 only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.

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Job 35:9“People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.

Job 35:10

Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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Job 35:11who teaches us more than he teaches[fn] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than[fn] the birds in the sky?’

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Job 35:12He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.

Job 35:13

Job 35:13Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

Job 35:14

Job 35:14How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,

Job 35:15

Job 35:15and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.[fn]

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

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NIV Footnotes

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Or you

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Or night, / 11 who teaches us by

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Or night, / 11 who teaches us by

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Or us wise by

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Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

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Job Chapter 35 — Additional Translations:

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Job 35 :: New International Version (NIV)

NIV Footnotes

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