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title="Job 34">◄</a> Job 35 <a href="../job/36.htm" title="Job 36">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/35.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Elihu said:</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Do you think this is just?</p><p class="line2">You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or you">a</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line2">and what do I gain by not sinning?’</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“I would like to reply to you</p><p class="line2">and to your friends with you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Look up at the heavens and see;</p><p class="line2">gaze at the clouds so high above you.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If you sin, how does that affect him?</p><p class="line2">If your sins are many, what does that do to him?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you are righteous, what do you give to him,</p><p class="line2">or what does he receive from your hand?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself,</p><p class="line2">and your righteousness only other people.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“People cry out under a load of oppression;</p><p class="line2">they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,</p><p class="line2">who gives songs in the night,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>who teaches us more than he teaches <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or night, 11 who teaches us by">b</a></sup></span> the beasts of the earth</p><p class="line2">and makes us wiser than <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or us wise by">c</a></sup></span> the birds in the sky?’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He does not answer when people cry out</p><p class="line2">because of the arrogance of the wicked.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea;</p><p class="line2">the Almighty pays no attention to it.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less, then, will he listen</p><p class="line2">when you say that you do not see him,</p><p class="line1">that your case is before him</p><p class="line2">and you must wait for him,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and further, that his anger never punishes</p><p class="line2">and he does not take the least notice of wickedness. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">d</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Job opens his mouth with empty talk;</p><p class="line2">without knowledge he multiplies words.”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>you</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>night,<br />     <span class="fnref">11</span>who teaches us by</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>us wise by</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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