Job 35

1Moreover Elihu answered,

2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’Cross-references: Job 9:17 · Job 10:7 · Job 16:17 · Job 19:6 · Job 27:2 · Job 34:5 · +3 more

3that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’Cross-references: Job 9:21 · Job 9:30 · Job 10:15 · Job 21:15 · Job 31:2 · Job 34:9 · +2 more

4I will answer you, and your companions with you.Cross-references: Job 34:8 · Prov 13:20

5Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.Cross-references: Gen 15:5 · 1Ki 8:27 · Job 22:12 · Job 25:5 · Job 36:26 · Job 37:16 · +5 more

6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?Cross-references: Prov 8:36 · Prov 9:12 · Jer 7:19

7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?Cross-references: 1Chr 29:14 · Job 22:2 · Ps 16:2 · Prov 9:12 · Luke 17:10 · Rom 11:35

8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 18:24 · Gen 19:29 · Josh 7:1 · Josh 22:20 · Job 42:8 · +7 more

9“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.Cross-references: Ex 2:23 · Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:9 · Neh 5:1 · Job 12:19 · Job 24:12 · +8 more

10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,Cross-references: 1Chr 10:13 · 2Chr 28:22 · Job 27:10 · Job 32:22 · Job 36:3 · Job 36:13 · +10 more

11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 2:7 · Job 32:8 · Job 36:22 · Ps 94:12

12There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.Cross-references: Ps 18:41 · Ps 73:6 · Ps 123:3 · Prov 1:28 · Isa 14:14 · John 9:31

13Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.Cross-references: Job 22:22 · Job 27:8 · Job 30:20 · Ps 102:17 · Prov 15:8 · Prov 15:29 · +10 more

14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!Cross-references: Job 9:11 · Job 9:19 · Job 19:7 · Job 23:3 · Job 23:8 · Ps 27:12 · +10 more

15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,Cross-references: Num 20:12 · Job 4:5 · Job 9:14 · Job 13:15 · Job 30:15 · Ps 88:11 · +5 more

16therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”Cross-references: Job 3:1 · Job 33:2 · Job 33:8 · Job 34:35 · Job 38:2