Job 35 · Clearspring

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

¹And Elihu answereth and saith: --+ ²This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said--`My righteousness is more than God's?'+ ³For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'+ ⁴I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,+ ⁵Behold attentively the heavens--and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.+ ⁶If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?+ ⁷If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?+ ⁸For a man like thyself is thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.+ ⁹Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.+ ¹⁰And none said, `Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,+ ¹¹Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'+ ¹²There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.+ ¹³Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.+ ¹⁴Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.+ ¹⁵And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.+ ¹⁶And Job with vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.+

Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

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