Job 35 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Elihu spake moreover, and said, "

" Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? "

" 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 "

" Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher "

" If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest "

" If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? "

" Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. "

" By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. "

" But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; "

" Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? "

" There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. "

" Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard "

" Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust "

" But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: "

" Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. "