35:2 “Do you think this is fair? You say, ‘God will show that I am right,’
35:3 but you also ask, ‘What’s the use? I don’t gain anything by not sinning.’
35:4 “I will answer you and your friends who are with you.
35:5 Look up at the sky and see the clouds so high above you.
35:6 If you sin, it does nothing to God; even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.
35:7 If you are good, you give nothing to God; he receives nothing from your hand.
35:8 Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself, and the good you do only helps other human beings.
35:9 “People cry out when they are in trouble; they beg for relief from powerful people.
35:10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
35:11 who makes us smarter than the animals of the earth and wiser than the birds of the air?’
35:12 God does not answer evil people when they cry out, because the wicked are proud.
35:13 God does not listen to their useless begging; the Almighty pays no attention to them.
35:14 He will listen to you even less when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him, that you must wait for him,
35:15 that his anger never punishes, and that he doesn’t notice evil.
35:16 So Job is only speaking nonsense, saying many words without knowing what is true.”
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