Job 35 · Clearspring

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

¹Moreover Elihu answered and said,+ ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more thanGod's?+ ³For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?+ ⁴I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.+ ⁵Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.+ ⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?+ ⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?+ ⁸Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.+ ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:+ ¹⁰But none saith, Where isGod my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,+ ¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?+ ¹²There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.+ ¹³SurelyGod will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.+ ¹⁴Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.+ ¹⁵But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?+ ¹⁶For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.+

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

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