35:2 Do you think it right to say, “I am in the right, not God”?
35:3 When you ask what it profits you, “What advantage do I have from not sinning?”
35:4 I have words for a reply to you and your friends as well.
35:5 Look up to the skies and see; behold the heavens high above you.
35:6 If you sin, what do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?
35:8 Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself, and your justice, only a fellow human being.
35:9 In great oppression people cry out; they call for help because of the power of the great,
35:10 No one says, “Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
35:11 Teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?”
35:12 Though thus they cry out, he does not answer because of the pride of the wicked.
35:13 But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.
35:14 Even though you say, “You take no notice of it,” the case is before him; with trembling wait upon him.
35:15 But now that you have done otherwise, God’s anger punishes, nor does he show much concern over a life.
35:16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, multiplying words without knowledge.
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