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35 : 1 Then Elihu said:
35 : 2 Do you think this is just? You say, `I will be cleared by God. `
35 : 3 Yet you ask him, `What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?`
35 : 4 I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
35 : 5 Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
35 : 6 If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
35 : 7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
35 : 8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
35 : 9 Men cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
35 : 10 But no one says, `Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
35 : 11 who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?`
35 : 12 He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
35 : 13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
35 : 14 How 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,
35 : 15 and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
35 : 16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words."