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| The Book of Job 35 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Job 35:1 | And Elihu made answer and said, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:2 | Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:3 | What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:4 | I will make answer to you and to your friends: | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:5 | Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:6 | If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:7 | If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:8 | Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:9 | Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:10 | But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:11 | Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven? | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:12 | There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:13 | But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:14 | How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him. | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:15 | And now ... ; | |||||||||||||||
| Job 35:16 | And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge. | |||||||||||||||
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