Job 35
35
Job 35
Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness
1Elihu continued and said:
2 #
Job 32.2
“Do you think this to be just?
You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’
3 #
Job 9.30, 31; 34.9 If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
4I will answer you
and your friends with you.
5 #
Job 22.12
Look at the heavens and see;
observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
6 #
Prov 8.36; Jer 7.19 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 #
Job 22.2, 3; Prov 9.12; Lk 17.10 If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects others like you,
and your righteousness, other human beings.
9 #
Ex 2.23; Job 12.19 “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;
they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 #
Job 27.10; Ps 42.8; 149.5; Acts 16.25 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives strength in the night,
11 #
Ps 94.12; Lk 12.24 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 #
Prov 1.28
There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evildoers.
13 #
Job 27.9; Prov 15.29; Isa 1.15; Jer 11.11 Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty#35.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai regard it.
14 #
Ps 37.5, 6 How much less when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
15 #
Eccl 8.11
And now, because his anger does not punish
and he does not greatly heed transgression,#35.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
16 #
Job 34.35, 37 Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Job 35
35
Job 35
Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness
1Elihu continued and said:
2 #
Job 32.2
“Do you think this to be just?
You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’
3 #
Job 9.30, 31; 34.9 If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?
How am I better off than if I had sinned?’
4I will answer you
and your friends with you.
5 #
Job 22.12
Look at the heavens and see;
observe the clouds, which are higher than you.
6 #
Prov 8.36; Jer 7.19 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 #
Job 22.2, 3; Prov 9.12; Lk 17.10 If you are righteous, what do you give to him,
or what does he receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness affects others like you,
and your righteousness, other human beings.
9 #
Ex 2.23; Job 12.19 “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;
they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 #
Job 27.10; Ps 42.8; 149.5; Acts 16.25 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
who gives strength in the night,
11 #
Ps 94.12; Lk 12.24 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 #
Prov 1.28
There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evildoers.
13 #
Job 27.9; Prov 15.29; Isa 1.15; Jer 11.11 Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
nor does the Almighty#35.13 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai regard it.
14 #
Ps 37.5, 6 How much less when you say that you do not see him,
that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!
15 #
Eccl 8.11
And now, because his anger does not punish
and he does not greatly heed transgression,#35.15 Meaning of Heb uncertain
16 #
Job 34.35, 37 Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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