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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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/35.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Elihu Condemns Job</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Elihu answered and said:</p> <span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Do you think this to be just?</span><br /><span class="indent">Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that you ask, ‘What advantage have I?</span><br /><span class="indent">How am I better off than if I had sinned?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will answer you</span><br /><span class="indent">and your friends with you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Look at the heavens, and see;</span><br /><span class="indent">and behold the clouds, which are higher than you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?</span><br /><span class="indent">And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If you are righteous, what do you give to him?</span><br /><span class="indent">Or what does he receive from your hand?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your righteousness a son of man.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;</span><br /><span class="indent">they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or the many">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,</span><br /><span class="indent">who gives songs in the night,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There they cry out, but he does not answer,</span><br /><span class="indent">because of the pride of evil men.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Surely God does not hear an empty cry,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor does the Almighty regard it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">How much less when you say that you do not see him,</span><br /><span class="indent">that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And now, because his anger does not punish,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he does not take much note of transgression,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Theodotion, Symmachus (compare Vulgate); the meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain">b</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Job opens his mouth in empty talk;</span><br /><span class="indent">he multiplies words without knowledge.”</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> many</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> 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