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Job 35 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

1 And Elihu made answer and said, 2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, 3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong? 4 I will make answer to you and to your friends: 5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you. 6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? 7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand? 8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man. 9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong. 10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night; 11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven? 12 There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer. 13 But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it; 14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him. 15 And now ... ; 16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

Cross references (15)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Matthew 12:36–37; Job 9:17; Job 34:5; Job 16:17; Job 19:6–7
  2. 3 Job 34:9; Malachi 3:14; Job 9:21–22; Psalm 73:13; Job 31:2
  3. 4 Job 34:8; Proverbs 13:20
  4. 5 Job 22:12; Isaiah 55:9; Nahum 1:3; Isaiah 40:22–23; Job 37:16
  5. 6 Jeremiah 7:19; Proverbs 8:36; Proverbs 9:12
  6. 7 Psalm 16:2; Job 22:2–3; Luke 17:10; Proverbs 9:12; Romans 11:35
  7. 8 Jonah 1:12; Psalm 106:30; Hebrews 11:7; Job 42:8; Genesis 12:2
  8. 9 Exodus 2:23; Job 34:28; Exodus 3:9; Psalm 12:5; Nehemiah 5:1–5
  9. 10 Psalm 42:8; Acts 16:25; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 77:6; Isaiah 51:13
  10. 11 Psalm 94:12; Job 36:22; Job 32:8; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7
  11. 12 Proverbs 1:28; John 9:31; Psalm 123:3–4; Isaiah 14:14–17; Psalm 73:6–8
  12. 13 Proverbs 15:29; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11; Isaiah 1:15; Proverbs 15:8
  13. 14 Job 9:11; Job 23:3; Isaiah 30:18; Job 9:19; Psalm 62:5
  14. 15 Psalm 89:32; Job 30:15–31; Hebrews 12:11–12; Job 13:15; Hosea 11:8–9
  15. 16 Job 38:2; Job 34:35–37; Job 33:8–12; Job 33:2; Job 3:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences