Job 35:2 "Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'?

Job 35:3 "For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?'

Job 35:4 "I will answer you, And your friends with you.

Job 35:5 "Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds--they are higher than you.

Job 35:6 "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

Job 35:7 "If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?

Job 35:8 "Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man.

Job 35:9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

Job 35:10 "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

Job 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

Job 35:12 "There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.

Job 35:13 "Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

Job 35:14 "How much less when you say you do not behold Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

Job 35:15 "And now, because He has not visited in His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well,

Job 35:16 So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge."

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Job 36:1 Then Elihu continued and said,

Job 36:2 "Wait for me a little, and I will show you That there is yet more to be said in God's behalf.

Job 36:3 "I will fetch my knowledge from afar, And I will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

Job 36:4 "For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

Job 36:5 "Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any; He is mighty in strength of understanding.

Job 36:6 "He does not keep the wicked alive, But gives justice to the afflicted.

Job 36:7 "He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous; But with kings on the throne He has seated them forever, and they are exalted.

Job 36:8 "And if they are bound in fetters, And are caught in the cords of affliction,

Job 36:9 Then He declares to them their work And their transgressions, that they have magnified themselves.

Job 36:10 "He opens their ear to instruction, And commands that they return from evil.

Job 36:11 "If they hear and serve Him, They will end their days in prosperity And their years in pleasures.

Job 36:12 "But if they do not hear, they shall perish by the sword And they will die without knowledge.

Job 36:13 "But the godless in heart lay up anger; They do not cry for help when He binds them.

Job 36:14 "They die in youth, And their life perishes among the cult prostitutes.

Job 36:15 "He delivers the afflicted in their affliction, And opens their ear in time of oppression.

Job 36:16 "Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress, Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint; And that which was set on your table was full of fatness.

Job 36:17 "But you were full of judgment on the wicked; Judgment and justice take hold of you.

Job 36:18 "Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing; And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

Job 36:19 "Will your riches keep you from distress, Or all the forces of your strength?

Job 36:20 "Do not long for the night, When people vanish in their place.

Job 36:21 "Be careful, do not turn to evil, For you have preferred this to affliction.

Job 36:22 "Behold, God is exalted in His power; Who is a teacher like Him?

Job 36:23 "Who has appointed Him His way, And who has said, 'You have done wrong'?

Job 36:24 "Remember that you should exalt His work, Of which men have sung.

Job 36:25 "All men have seen it; Man beholds from afar.

Job 36:26 "Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

Job 36:27 "For He draws up the drops of water, They distill rain from the mist,

Job 36:28 Which the clouds pour down, They drip upon man abundantly.

Job 36:29 "Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, The thundering of His pavilion?

Job 36:30 "Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him, And He covers the depths of the sea.

Job 36:31 "For by these He judges peoples; He gives food in abundance.

Job 36:32 "He covers His hands with the lightning, And commands it to strike the mark.

Job 36:33 "Its noise declares His presence; The cattle also, concerning what is coming up.

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Job 37:1 "At this also my heart trembles, And leaps from its place.

Job 37:2 "Listen closely to the thunder of His voice, And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

Job 37:3 "Under the whole heaven He lets it loose, And His lightning to the ends of the earth.

Job 37:4 "After it, a voice roars; He thunders with His majestic voice, And He does not restrain the lightnings when His voice is heard.

Job 37:5 "God thunders with His voice wondrously, Doing great things which we cannot comprehend.

Job 37:6 "For to the snow He says, 'Fall on the earth, 'And to the downpour and the rain, 'Be strong.'

Job 37:7 "He seals the hand of every man, That all men may know His work.

Job 37:8 "Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its den.

Job 37:9 "Out of the south comes the storm, And out of the north the cold.

Job 37:10 "From the breath of God ice is made, And the expanse of the waters is frozen.

Job 37:11 "Also with moisture He loads the thick cloud; He disperses the cloud of His lightning.

Job 37:12 "It changes direction, turning around by His guidance, That it may do whatever He commands it On the face of the inhabited earth.

Job 37:13 "Whether for correction, or for His world, Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

Job 37:14 "Listen to this, O Job, Stand and consider the wonders of God.

Job 37:15 "Do you know how God establishes them, And makes the lightning of His cloud to shine?

Job 37:16 "Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds, The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

Job 37:17 You whose garments are hot, When the land is still because of the south wind?

Job 37:18 "Can you, with Him, spread out the skies, Strong as a molten mirror?

Job 37:19 "Teach us what we shall say to Him; We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

Job 37:20 "Shall it be told Him that I would speak? Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

Job 37:21 "Now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies; But the wind has passed and cleared them.

Job 37:22 "Out of the north comes golden splendor; Around God is awesome majesty.

Job 37:23 "The Almighty--we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

Job 37:24 "Therefore men fear Him; He does not regard any who are wise of heart."