Job 35

¹Elihu spake moreover, and said,🔗🔍
²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?🔗🔍
³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?🔗🔍
⁴I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.🔗🔍
⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.🔗🔍
⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?🔗🔍
⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?🔗🔍
⁸Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.🔗🔍
⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.🔗🔍
¹⁰But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;🔗🔍
¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?🔗🔍
¹²There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.🔗🔍
¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.🔗🔍
¹⁴Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.🔗🔍
¹⁵But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:🔗🔍
¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.🔗🔍