Job 35:1-16

  • Elihu points out Job’s faulty reasoning (1-16)

    • Job said he is more righteous than God (2)

    • God so high, not affected by sin (5, 6)

    • Job should wait for God (14)

35  E·liʹhu continued his response:  2  “Are you so convinced that you are right that you would say,‘I am more righteous than God’?+  3  For you say, ‘What does it matter to you?* Am I better off than if I had sinned?’+  4  I will reply to youAnd to your companions+ with you.  5  Look up to heaven and see,Observe the clouds,+ which are high above you.  6  If you sin, how do you hurt him?+ If your transgressions multiply, what do you do to him?+  7  If you are righteous, what do you give him;What does he receive from you?+  8  Your wickedness affects only a human like yourself,And your righteousness, a son of man.  9  People cry out when under great oppression;They cry for relief from the domination* of the powerful.+ 10  But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Grand Maker,+The one causing songs to be sung in the night?’+ 11  He teaches us+ more than the beasts of the earth,+And he makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens. 12  People cry out, but he does not answer,+Because of the pride of the wicked.+ 13  Surely God does not hear an empty cry;*+The Almighty does not pay attention to it. 14  How much less, then, when you complain that you do not see him!+ Your legal case is before him, so you should wait anxiously for him.+ 15  For he has not angrily called for an accounting;Nor has he taken note of your extreme rashness.+ 16  Job opens his mouth wide in vain;He multiplies words without knowledge.”+

Footnotes

Likely referring to God.
Lit., “arm.”
Or “a lie.”