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35:1  Then Elihu continued:
35:2  Do you really think it is right when you say, “My righteousness is greater than God’s”?
35:3  You even say, “What use will this be to me? How will it profit me more than if I sinned?”
35:4  But I will respond to your words—and to your friends with you!
35:5  Look at the heavens and you will see. Take a good look at the clouds. They are high above you!
35:6  If you have sinned, how does that affect God? If your rebellious deeds are many, what harm can you do to him?
35:7  If you are righteous, what are you giving to him? What does he receive from your hand?
35:8  Your wickedness only affects a man like you, and your righteousness only impacts other people.
35:9  They cry out because of severe oppression. They scream for relief from the arm of the powerful.
35:10  But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker, who provides songs in the night,
35:11  who teaches us more than the wild animals on the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?”
35:12  Then the wicked cry out, but he does not answer, because of their arrogant pride.
35:13  Certainly God will not listen to an insincere cry, and the Almighty will not pay attention to it.
35:14  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that your case has been presented to him, and that you are waiting for him!
35:15  Besides that, you say that his anger has not demanded an accounting, and that he does not fully understand sin.
35:16  Job opens his mouth pointlessly, and he heaps up words without knowledge.