...nd Elihu made answer and said,
Job 35:2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,
Job 35:3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?
Job 35:4 I will make answer to you and to your friends:
Job 35:5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.
Job 35:6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?
Job 35:7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?
Job 35:8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.
Job 35:9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.
Job 35:10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
Job 35:11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?
Job 35:12 There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.
Job 35:13 But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;
Job 35:14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.
Job 35:15 And now ... ;
Job 35:16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.
Job 36:1 And Elihu went on to say,
Job 36:2 Give me a little more time, and I will make it clear to you; for I have still something to say for God.
Job 36:3 I will get my knowledge from far, and I will give righteousness to my Maker.
Job 36:4 For truly my words are not false; one who has all knowledge is talking with you.
Job 36:5 Truly, God gives up the hard-hearted, and will not give life to the sinner.
Job 36:6 His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;
Job 36:7 Lifting them up to the seat of kings, and making them safe for ever.
Job 36:8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,
Job 36:9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.
Job 36:10 Their ear is open to his teaching, and he gives them orders so that their hearts may be turned from evil.
Job 36:11 If they give ear to his voice, and do his word, then he gives them long life, and years full of pleasure.
Job 36:12 But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.
Job 36:13 Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.
Job 36:14 They come to their end while they are still young, their life is short like that of those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of their gods.
Job 36:15 He makes the wrong done to the poor the way of their salvation, opening their ears by their trouble.
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Job 36:21 Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.
Job 36:22 Truly God is lifted up in strength; who is a ruler like him?
Job 36:23 Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?
Job 36:24 See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.
Job 36:25 All people are looking on it; man sees it from far.
Job 36:26 Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.
Job 36:27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,
Job 36:28 Flowing down from the sky, and dropping on the peoples.
Job 36:29 And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?
Job 36:30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with