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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>If you are righteous, what do you give to Him,<br>         Or what does He receive from your hand? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,<br>         And your righteousness is for a son of man. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;<br>         They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>But no one says, Where is God my Maker,<br>         Who gives songs in the night, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth<br>         And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>There they cry out, but He does not answer<br>         Because of the pride of evil men. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Surely God will not listen to an empty <i>cry,</i><br>         Nor will the Almighty regard it. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>How much less when you say you do not behold Him,<br>         The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him! <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>And now, because He has not visited <i>in</i> His anger,<br>         Nor has He acknowledged transgression well, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/35-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>So Job opens his mouth emptily;<br>         He multiplies words without knowledge. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/35.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/35.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/job/35.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/35.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? and if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/35.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/35.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/35.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_26_1880/questions_which_ought_to_be.htm">Questions which Ought to be Asked</a><br></span><span class="snippet">ELIHU PERCEIVED the great ones of the earth oppressing the needy, and he traced their domineering tyranny to their forgetfulness of God: "None saith, Where is God my Maker?" Surely, had they thought of God they could not have acted so unjustly. Worse still, if I understand Elihu aright, he complained that even among the oppressed there was the same departure in heart from the Lord: they cried out by reason of the arm of the mighty, but unhappily they did not cry unto God their Maker, though he waits <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_26_1880/questions_which_ought_to_be.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 26: 1880</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_44_1898/songs_in_the_night.htm">Songs in the Night</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?"--Job 35:10. ELIHU was a wise man, exceeding wise, though not as wise as the all-wise Jehovah, who sees light in the clouds, and finds order in confusion; hence Elihu, being much puzzled at beholding Job thus afflicted, cast about him to find the cause of it, and he very wisely hit upon one of the most likely reasons, although it did not happen to be the right one in Job's case. He said within himself--"Surely, if men be tried <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_44_1898/songs_in_the_night.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 44: 1898</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/the_worlds_great_sermons_volume_8/spurgeon__songs_in_the.htm">Spurgeon -- Songs in the Night</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born at Kelvedon, Essex, England, in 1834. He was one of the most powerful and popular preachers of his time, and his extraordinary force of character and wonderful enthusiasm attracted vast audiences. His voice was unusually powerful, clear and melodious, and he used it with consummate skill. In the preparation of his sermons he meditated much but wrote not a word, so that he was in the truest sense a purely extemporaneous speaker. Sincerity, intensity, imagination and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/kleiser/the_worlds_great_sermons_volume_8/spurgeon__songs_in_the.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Grenville Kleiser—</span><span class="citation2">The world's great sermons, Volume 8</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards_of_life_and_service/x_why_should_i.htm">'Why Should I?'</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thou saidst, What advantage will it be? What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.' (Job xxxv. 3, 4.) In reading these words I have no wish to enter into the controversy between Job and his friends as to the relationship of physical suffering to sin, but to emphasize a certain mental attitude which they indicate, and which often expresses itself in relation to other things. The human mind is so constituted that men will not commit <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/howard/standards_of_life_and_service/x_why_should_i.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">T. H. Howard—</span><span class="citation2">Standards of Life and Service</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/the_rise_and_progress_of_religion_in_the_soul/chapter_i_the_introduction_to.htm">The Introduction to the Work with Some General Account of Its Design</a><br></span><span class="snippet">. 1, 2.That true religion is very rare, appears from comparing the nature of it with the lives and characters of men around us.--3. The want of it, matter of just lamentation.--4. To remedy this evil is the design of the ensuing Treatise.--5, 6. To which, therefore, the Author earnestly bespeaks the attention of the reader, as his own heart is deeply interested in it.--7 to 12. A general plan of the Work; of which the first fifteen chapters relate chiefly to the Rise of Religion, and the remaining <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/doddridge/the_rise_and_progress_of_religion_in_the_soul/chapter_i_the_introduction_to.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Philip Doddridge—</span><span class="citation2">The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_new_song.htm">The New Song</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Heinrich Suso Job xxxv. 10 O Lord, in my songs I have praised Thee For all that was sweet and was fair; And now a new song would I sing Thee, A song that is wondrous and rare. A song of the heart that is broken, A song of the sighs and the tears, The sickness, the want, and the sadness Of the days of our pilgrimage years. A song of the widows and orphans, Of the weary and hungry and sad-- Loud praise of the will Thou has broken, The will of the young and the glad. A song of the outcasts and martyrs, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bevan/hymns_of_ter_steegen_suso_and_others/the_new_song.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Frances Bevan—</span><span class="citation2">Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_motive_of_anger.htm">Whether the Motive of Anger is Always Something done against the one who is Angry?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the motive of anger is not always something done against the one who is angry. Because man, by sinning, can do nothing against God; since it is written (Job 35:6): "If thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against Him?" And yet God is spoken of as being angry with man on account of sin, according to Ps. 105:40: "The Lord was exceedingly angry with His people." Therefore it is not always on account of something done against him, that a man is angry. Objection <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_motive_of_anger.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_man_may_merit.htm">Whether a Man May Merit Anything from God?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that a man can merit nothing from God. For no one, it would seem, merits by giving another his due. But by all the good we do, we cannot make sufficient return to God, since yet more is His due, as also the Philosopher says (Ethic. viii, 14). Hence it is written (Lk. 17:10): "When you have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do." Therefore a man can merit nothing from God. Objection 2: Further, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_man_may_merit.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_beneficence_is_an_act.htm">Whether Beneficence is an Act of Charity?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that beneficence is not an act of charity. For charity is chiefly directed to God. Now we cannot benefit God, according to Job 35:7: "What shalt thou give Him? or what shall He receive of thy hand?" Therefore beneficence is not an act of charity. Objection 2: Further, beneficence consists chiefly in making gifts. But this belongs to liberality. Therefore beneficence is an act of liberality and not of charity. Objection 3: Further, what a man gives, he gives either as being <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_beneficence_is_an_act.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_human_action_is_5.htm">Whether a Human Action is Meritorious or Demeritorious Before God, According as it is Good or Evil?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that man's actions, good or evil, are not meritorious or demeritorious in the sight of God. Because, as stated above [1202](A[3]), merit and demerit imply relation to retribution for good or harm done to another. But a man's action, good or evil, does no good or harm to God; for it is written (Job 35:6,7): "If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt Him? . . . And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give Him?" Therefore a human action, good or evil, is not meritorious or demeritorious <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_a_human_action_is_5.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_sin_is_aggravated_by.htm">Whether Sin is Aggravated by Reason of Its Causing More Harm?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that a sin is not aggravated by reason of its causing more harm. Because the harm done is an issue consequent to the sinful act. But the issue of an act does not add to its goodness or malice, as stated above ([1736]Q[20], A[5]). Therefore a sin is not aggravated on account of its causing more harm. Objection 2: Further, harm is inflicted by sins against our neighbor. Because no one wishes to harm himself: and no one can harm God, according to Job 35:6, 8: "If thy iniquities <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_sin_is_aggravated_by.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/job/35-6.htm">Job 35:6 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/35-5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 35:5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 35:5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/35-7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 35:7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 35:7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/job/35-6.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>