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35:1  Moreover, Elihu spoke up and said,
35:2  “Do you think this is justice when you say, ‘I am right before God’?
35:3  If you ask what it profits you: ‘How do I benefit by refraining from my sin?’
35:4  I myself will give answer to you and to your friends with you.
35:5  “Look at the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
35:6  If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, 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 affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans.
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 heavens?’
35:12  There they cry out, but he does not answer because of the pride of evildoers.
35:13  “Surely God does not hear an empty plea, and Shaddai does not regard it.
35:14  How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
35:15  But now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,
35:16  therefore Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words.”