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God.’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">How am I better off than if I had sinned?’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I will answer you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your friends with you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Look at the heavens and see;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">observe the clouds, which are higher than you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>If you are righteous, what do you give to him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or what does he receive from your hand?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Your wickedness affects others like you,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your righteousness, other human beings.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who gives strength in the night,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>who teaches us more than the animals of the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>There they cry out, but he does not answer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">because of the pride of evildoers.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Surely God does not hear an empty cry,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor does the Almighty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15804a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> regard it.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>How much less when you say that you do not see him,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>And now, because his anger does not punish,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and he does not greatly heed transgression,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15806b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Job opens his mouth in empty talk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he multiplies words without knowledge.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 35:13">Job 35:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 35:15">Job 35:15</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Theodotion Symmachus Compare Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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