1 And Elihu went on to say: 2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ 4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well. 5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. 6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? 7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? 8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. 9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. 10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, 11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ 12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. 13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it. 14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, 15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly! 16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Job 35 Majority Standard Bible
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Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Matthew 12:36–37; Job 9:17; Job 34:5; Job 16:17; Job 19:6–7
- 3 Job 34:9; Malachi 3:14; Job 9:21–22; Psalm 73:13; Job 31:2
- 4 Job 34:8; Proverbs 13:20
- 5 Job 22:12; Isaiah 55:9; Nahum 1:3; Isaiah 40:22–23; Job 37:16
- 6 Jeremiah 7:19; Proverbs 8:36; Proverbs 9:12
- 7 Psalm 16:2; Job 22:2–3; Luke 17:10; Proverbs 9:12; Romans 11:35
- 8 Jonah 1:12; Psalm 106:30; Hebrews 11:7; Job 42:8; Genesis 12:2
- 9 Exodus 2:23; Job 34:28; Exodus 3:9; Psalm 12:5; Nehemiah 5:1–5
- 10 Psalm 42:8; Acts 16:25; Psalm 149:5; Psalm 77:6; Isaiah 51:13
- 11 Psalm 94:12; Job 36:22; Job 32:8; Genesis 1:26; Genesis 2:7
- 12 Proverbs 1:28; John 9:31; Psalm 123:3–4; Isaiah 14:14–17; Psalm 73:6–8
- 13 Proverbs 15:29; James 4:3; Jeremiah 11:11; Isaiah 1:15; Proverbs 15:8
- 14 Job 9:11; Job 23:3; Isaiah 30:18; Job 9:19; Psalm 62:5
- 15 Psalm 89:32; Job 30:15–31; Hebrews 12:11–12; Job 13:15; Hosea 11:8–9
- 16 Job 38:2; Job 34:35–37; Job 33:8–12; Job 33:2; Job 3:1
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