Job 35 · Clearspring

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

¹And Elihu went on to say:+ ²“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’+ ³For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’+ ⁴I will reply to you and to your friends as well.+ ⁵Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.+ ⁶If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?+ ⁷If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?+ ⁸Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.+ ⁹Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.+ ¹⁰But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,+ ¹¹who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’+ ¹²There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.+ ¹³Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.+ ¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,+ ¹⁵and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!+ ¹⁶So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”+

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

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