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35:1  Elihu continued:
35:2  Do you think it right? You say, “I’m more just than God.”
35:3  Yet you ask, “What does it benefit you? What have I gained by avoiding sin?”
35:4  I’ll answer you, and your friends along with you.
35:5  Look at the heavens and see; scan the clouds high over you.
35:6  If you’ve sinned, how have you affected God? Your offenses have multiplied; what have you done 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 evil affects others like you, and your righteousness affects fellow human beings.
35:9  People cry out because of heavy oppression; shout under the power of the mighty.
35:10  But no one says, “Where is God my maker; who gives songs in the night;
35:11  who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?”
35:12  Then they cry out; but he doesn’t answer, because of the pride of the wicked.
35:13  God certainly doesn’t respond to a deceitful cry; the Almighty doesn’t pay attention to it.
35:14  Although you say that you don’t see him, the case is before him; so wait anxiously for him.
35:15  Even though his anger is now held back, a person doesn’t know it’s only delayed.
35:16  So Job mouths emptiness; he piles up ignorant words.