Job - Chapter 35 - King James 2000
- Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
- Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
- For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
- I will answer you, and your companions with you.
- Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
- If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him?
- If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand?
- Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
- Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
- But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
- Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
- There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
- Although you say you shall not see him, yet justice is before him; therefore you must trust in him.
- But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in a great extreme:
- Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.