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35:1  Then Elihu continued and said,
35:2  “Do you think this is in accordance with justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
35:3  For you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What benefit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
35:4  I will answer you, And your friends with you.
35:5  Look at the heavens and see; And look at the clouds—they are higher than you.
35:6  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your wrongdoings are many, 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 is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.
35:9  “Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm 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 animals of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
35:12  There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil people.
35:13  God certainly will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
35:14  How much less when you say you do not look at Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!
35:15  And now, because He has not avenged His anger, Nor has He acknowledged wrongdoing well,
35:16  So Job opens his mouth with empty words; He multiplies words without knowledge.”