Job 35 · Clearspring

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

¹Elihu spake moreover, and said,+ ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?+ ³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?+ ⁴I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.+ ⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.+ ⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?+ ⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?+ ⁸Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.+ ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.+ ¹⁰But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;+ ¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?+ ¹²There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.+ ¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.+ ¹⁴Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.+ ¹⁵But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:+ ¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.+

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

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