Job 35
Elihu's Third Speech: Does Your Sin Affect God?
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? Parallel theme: Job 34:9
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. Parallel theme: Job 34:8, Proverbs 13:20
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. Parallel theme: Job 22:12, Isaiah 55:9, Nahum 1:3
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? Sin: Proverbs 8:36. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 7:19
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? Parallel theme: 1 Chronicles 29:14, Psalms 16:2, Proverbs 9:12, Luke 17:10, Romans 11:35
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty. Parallel theme: Job 34:28, Exodus 2:23
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; References God: Psalms 42:8, Isaiah 54:5, Acts 16:25, 1 Peter 4:19. Parallel theme: Job 36:13, Psalms 77:6, 149:5, Ecclesiastes 12:1, Isaiah 51:13 +4
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heavenHeaven: שָׁמַיִם (Shamayim). The Hebrew shamayim (שָׁמַיִם) means heaven or sky—God's dwelling place and the realm above earth. 'The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's' (Psalm 115:16), yet 'the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him' (1 Kings 8:27).? Parallel theme: Job 32:8, 36:22, Genesis 1:26, 2:7, Psalms 94:12
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. Parallel theme: Proverbs 1:28, John 9:31
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. Parallel theme: Proverbs 15:29, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 11:11, James 4:3
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. Parallel theme: Job 9:11
15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: Parallel theme: Psalms 89:32
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. Word: Job 38:2