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35:1  Then Elihu answered, saying:
35:2  “Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
35:3  For you ask, ‘What will it profit you?’ and ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
35:4  I will answer you, and your friends with you.
35:5  Look up at the heavens and see; consider the clouds so high above you.
35:6  If you sin, how does it affect Him? If your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
35:7  If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
35:8  Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness for a son of man.
35:9  “Because of a multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of 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 animals of the earth, who 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 the wicked.
35:13  Indeed God does not hear an empty cry; Shaddai pays no attention to it.
35:14  How much less when you say that you do not perceive Him that the case is before Him and you must wait for Him.
35:15  And further, that His anger does not punish and that He does not know transgression?
35:16  So Job opens his mouth with nonsense, without knowledge he multiplies words.”