35:2 “Are you so convinced you are right, that you say, ‘I am more just than God’?
35:3 For you ask what advantage it is to you, ‘How do I gain from not sinning?’
35:4 “Here is my answer to you, to you and to your friends:
35:5 Look at the heavens and see; observe the skies, high above you.
35:6 If you sin, how do you hurt him? If your crimes are many, how do you affect him?
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? What benefit does he get from you?
35:8 Your wickedness can affect only others like you, and your righteousness only other human beings.
35:9 People cry out from under many oppressions; they cry for help from under the fist of the mighty.
35:10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my maker, who causes glad songs to ring out at night,
35:11 who teaches us more than he teaches wild animals and makes us wiser than the birds in the air?’
35:12 They may cry out, but no one answers, because of evil men’s pride.
35:13 For God will not listen to empty cries; Shaddai pays no attention to them.
35:14 All the more when you say that you don’t see him! Just be patient; he’s considering the matter.
35:15 But now, just because he doesn’t get angry and punish, does it mean he doesn’t know what arrogance is?
35:16 So Iyov is being futile when he opens his mouth; he is piling up words without knowledge.”
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