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Job 35
World English Bible British Edition · Berean Standard Bible
“Do you think this to be your right,
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God (note: Or ‘I am righteous before God.’).’
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you?
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
If you are righteous, what do you give him?
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are,
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out.
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth,
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
There they cry, but no one answers,
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Surely God will not hear an empty cry,
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
How much less when you say you don’t see him.
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
But now, because he has not visited in his anger,
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk,
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”