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35:1  Elihu spoke again and said:
35:2  “Do you think this is right, that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
35:3  For you said, ‘What advantage will it be to me? What profit will I have if I am cleansed from my sin?’
35:4  “I will answer you, and your companions with you.
35:5  Look unto the heavens and see, and behold the clouds that are higher than you.
35:6  If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what does it do to Him?
35:7  If you are righteous, what does it give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
35:8  Your wickedness may hurt a man like you, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
35:9  “Because of the many oppressions they cry out; they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
35:10  But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
35:11  who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’
35:12  There they cry out, but He does not answer because of the pride of evil men.
35:13  Surely God will not hear vanity, nor will the Almighty regard it.
35:14  Although you say you do not see Him, yet judgment is before Him, and you must trust in Him.
35:15  But now, because He has not punished in His anger, nor taken much notice of folly,
35:16  therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.”