Job 35 (NET)

Job 35:1¹Then Elihu answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:2²“Do you think this to be just when you say, ‘My right before God’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:3³But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’ and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:4⁴I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:5⁵Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:6⁶If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:7⁷If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:8⁸Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:9⁹“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:10¹⁰But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:11¹¹who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:12¹²Then they cry out—but he does not answer— because of the arrogance of the wicked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:13¹³Surely it is an empty cry —God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:14¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:15¹⁵And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Job 35:16¹⁶So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s