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<p class="indent2"> You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, <p class="indent2"> and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will reply to you <p class="indent2"> and to your friends as well. <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Look to the heavens and see; <p class="indent2"> gaze at the clouds high above you. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? <p class="indent2"> If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>If you are righteous, what do you give Him, <p class="indent2"> or what does He receive from your hand? <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, <p class="indent2"> and your righteousness only a son of man. <A name="10"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Men cry out under great oppression; <p class="indent2"> they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. <A name="11"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, <p class="indent2"> who gives us songs in the night, <A name="12"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth <p class="indent2"> and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>There they cry out, but He does not answer, <p class="indent2"> because of the pride of evil men. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, <p class="indent2"> and the Almighty does not take note of it. <A name="15"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, <p class="indent2"> that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, <A name="16"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and further, that in His anger He has not punished <p class="indent2"> or taken much notice of folly! <p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So Job opens his mouth in vain <p class="indent2"> and multiplies words without knowledge.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>‘I am righteous before God.’</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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