Job 35

Elihu Condemns Job

1 And Elihu answered and said:

2 "Do you think this to be just?

Do you say, *See ch. 32:2‘It is my right before God,’

3 that you ask, *See ch. 34:9‘What advantage have I?

How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

4 I will answer you

and *ch. 34:8,36your friends with you.

5 *[ch. 22:12]Look at the heavens, and see;

and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.

6 If you have sinned, *Prov. 8:36;Jer. 7:19what do you accomplish against him?

And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

7 *ch. 22:2,3;Prov. 9:12;Luke 17:10;[ch. 41:11;Rom. 11:35]If you are righteous, what do you give to him?

Or what does he receive from your hand?

8 Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,

and your righteousness *ch. 25:6a son of man.

9 "Because of the multitude of *Amos 3:9oppressions people *Ex. 2:23;[ch. 34:28] cry out;

they call for help because of the arm of *[ch. 22:8]the mighty.*35:9 Or the many

10 But none says, ‘Where is God my *ch. 4:17;Deut. 32:6Maker,

who gives *Ps. 42:8;77:6;149:5;[Acts 16:25]songs in the night,

11 who teaches us *ch. 36:22;Ps. 94:12;Isa. 28:26more than the beasts of the earth

and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

12 There they *See ch. 27:9cry out, but he does not answer,

because of the pride of evil men.

13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry,

nor does the Almighty regard it.

14 How much less when you say that you *ch. 9:11;23:8,9do not see him,

that the case is before him, and you are *[ch. 13:15]waiting for him!

15 And now, because *Num. 16:29;Ps. 89:32his anger does not punish,

and he does not take much note of transgression,*35:15 Theodotion, Symmachus (compare Vulgate); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk;

he *ch. 34:37multiplies words *ch. 34:35;36:12;38:2;42:3without knowledge."