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Job 35
New King James Version

### Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness

35 Moreover Elihu answered and said:

2 “Do you think this is right?
Do you say,
‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
3 For (A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

4 “I will answer you,
And (B)your companions with you.
5 (C)Look to the heavens and see;
And behold the clouds—
They are higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish (D)against Him?
Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
7 (E)If you are righteous, what do you give Him?
Or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you,
And your righteousness a son of man.

9 “Because(F) of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;
They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 But no one says, (G)‘Where is God my Maker,
(H)Who gives songs in the night,
11 Who (I)teaches us more than the beasts of the earth,
And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’
12 (J)There they cry out, but He does not answer,
Because of the pride of evil men.
13 (K)Surely God will not listen to empty talk,
Nor will the Almighty regard it.
14 (L)Although you say you do not see Him,
Yet justice is before Him, and (M)you must wait for Him.
15 And now, because He has not (N)punished in His anger,
Nor taken much notice of folly,
16 (O)Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

#### Cross references

1. Job 35:3 : Job 21:15; 34:9
2. Job 35:4 : Job 34:8
3. Job 35:5 : Gen. 15:5; [Job 22:12; Ps. 8:3]
4. Job 35:6 : Job 7:20; [Prov. 8:36; Jer. 7:19]
5. Job 35:7 : Job 22:2; Ps. 16:2; Prov. 9:12; [Luke 17:10]; Rom. 11:35
6. Job 35:9 : Job 34:28
7. Job 35:10 : Is. 51:13
8. Job 35:10 : Job 8:21; Ps. 42:8; 77:6; 149:5; Acts 16:25
9. Job 35:11 : Job 36:22; Ps. 94:12; [Is. 48:17]; Jer. 32:33; [1 Cor. 2:13]
10. Job 35:12 : Prov. 1:28
11. Job 35:13 : Job 27:9; [Prov. 15:29; Is. 1:15]; Jer. 11:11; [Mic. 3:4]
12. Job 35:14 : Job 9:11
13. Job 35:14 : [Ps. 37:5, 6]
14. Job 35:15 : Ps. 89:32
15. Job 35:16 : Job 34:35; 38:2

New King James Version (NKJV)

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