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35:1  Then Elihu continued, saying:
35:2  Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"?
35:3  For you ask, "What does it profit You, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?"
35:4  I will answer you and your friends with you.
35:5  Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
35:6  If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it 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 affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness another human being.
35:9  People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the arm of the mighty.
35:10  But no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,
35:11  who gives us more understanding 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 men.
35:13  Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not take note of it--
35:14  how much less when you complain that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you are waiting for Him.
35:15  But now, because God's anger does not punish and He does not pay attention to transgression,
35:16  Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.