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"Elihu spake moreover, and said, Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness" - which was not only that he spake against God, but he thought so much of himself - "My righteousness is more than God's." That is what he practically meant, although he would not have said it. But Elihu put his finger upon the spot. "For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have if I be cleansed from my sin? I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Look unto the heavens, and see, and behold the clouds which are higher than thou." Can you bear in the face of that to speak against Him who is above them all? For man cannot look the sun in the face; who then is he to look God in the face? "If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?" etc. (vers. 6-16). So that whether it was decrying God, or setting forward himself, Job was wrong on both counts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-2.htm">Job 35:2</a></div><div class="verse">Thinkest thou this to be right, <i>that</i> thou saidst, My righteousness <i>is</i> more than God's?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-3.htm">Job 35:3</a></div><div class="verse">For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? <i>and</i>, What profit shall I have, <i>if I be cleansed</i> from my sin?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-4.htm">Job 35:4</a></div><div class="verse">I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-5.htm">Job 35:5</a></div><div class="verse">Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds <i>which</i> are higher than thou.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6</a></div><div class="verse">If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or <i>if</i> thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-7.htm">Job 35:7</a></div><div class="verse">If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-8.htm">Job 35:8</a></div><div class="verse">Thy wickedness <i>may hurt</i> a man as thou <i>art</i>; and thy righteousness <i>may profit</i> the son of man.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-9.htm">Job 35:9</a></div><div class="verse">By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make <i>the oppressed</i> to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-10.htm">Job 35:10</a></div><div class="verse">But none saith, Where <i>is</i> God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-11.htm">Job 35:11</a></div><div class="verse">Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-12.htm">Job 35:12</a></div><div class="verse">There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-13.htm">Job 35:13</a></div><div class="verse">Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-14.htm">Job 35:14</a></div><div class="verse">Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, <i>yet</i> judgment <i>is</i> before him; therefore trust thou in him.</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-15.htm">Job 35:15</a></div><div class="verse">But now, because <i>it is</i> not <i>so</i>, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth <i>it</i> not in great extremity:</div> <div class="versenum"><a href="/job/35-16.htm">Job 35:16</a></div><div class="verse">Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.</div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Kelly Commentary on Books of the Bible<br /><br />Text Courtesy of <a href="//biblesupport.com" target="_top">BibleSupport.com</a>. 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