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35:1  Then Elihu answered:
35:2  “Do you think this is ·fair [just]? You say, ‘·God will show that I am right [or I am more right than God],’
35:3  but you also ask, ‘What’s the use? ·I don’t gain [L How have I gained…?] anything by not sinning.’
35:4  “I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
35:5  Look up at the ·sky [L heavens and see] and observe the clouds so high above you.
35:6  If you sin, it does nothing to ·God [L him]; even if your ·sins [transgressions] are many, they do nothing to him.
35:7  If you are ·good [right; righteous], ·you give nothing [L what would you give…?] to God; ·he receives nothing [L what would he receive…?] from your hand.
35:8  Your ·evil ways [wickedness] only ·hurt [or influence] others like yourself, and ·the good you do [your righteousness] only ·helps [or influences] other human beings.
35:9  “·People [L They] cry out ·when they are in trouble [due to their many oppressions]; they ·beg for relief [shout for help] ·from powerful people [L because of the arm of the strong].
35:10  But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives us ·songs [or strength] in the night,
35:11  who ·makes us smarter [or teaches us more] than the animals of the earth and wiser than the birds of the ·air [heavens]?’
35:12  He does not answer evil people when they cry out, because the wicked are proud.
35:13  God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.
35:14  ·He will listen to you even [L How much] less when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, that you must wait for him,
35:15  that his anger never punishes, and that he doesn’t notice evil.
35:16  So Job is only speaking ·nonsense [meaningless things], saying many words ·without knowing what is true [ignorantly].”