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35:1  Elihu continued and said:
35:2  “Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’
35:3  If you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
35:4  I will answer you and your friends with you.
35:5  Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
35:6  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
35:7  If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand?
35:8  Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.
35:9  “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
35:10  But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night,
35:11  who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
35:12  There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.
35:13  Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.
35:14  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
35:15  And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
35:16  Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge.”