{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":35,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Job","prev":"job/34","next":"job/36","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"And Elihu went on to say:","f":[],"h":"Elihu Recalls God’s Justice","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"“ Do you think this is just? You say,‘ I am more righteous than God.’","f":["Or ‘I am righteous before God.’"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ Do you think this is just?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You say,‘ I am more righteous than God.’"}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":3,"t":"For you ask,‘ What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"For you ask,‘ What does it profit me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"I will reply to you and to your friends as well.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I will reply to you"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and to your friends as well."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Look to the heavens and see;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"gaze at the clouds high above you."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"If you are righteous, what do you give Him,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"or what does He receive from your hand?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and your righteousness only a son of man."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Men cry out under great oppression;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":10,"t":"But no one asks,‘ Where [is] God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"But no one asks,‘ Where [is] God my Maker,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"who gives us songs in the night,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"There they cry out, but He does not answer,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"because of the pride of evil men."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Surely God does not listen to empty pleas,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the Almighty does not take note of it."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"and further, that [in] His anger He has not punished [or] taken much notice of folly!","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"and further, that [in] His anger He has not punished"},{"style":"indent2","t":"[or] taken much notice of folly!"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":16,"t":"So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"So Job opens his mouth in vain"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and multiplies words without knowledge.”"}],"style":"indent1"}]}