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35:1 Then Elihu continued and said, 35:2 "Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's '? 35:3 "For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' 35:4 "I will answer you, And your friends with you. 35:5 "Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds-- they are higher than you. 35:6 "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? 35:7 "If you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? 35:8 "Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is for a son of man. 35:9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty. 35:10 "But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night, 35:11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?' 35:12 "There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men. 35:13 "Surely God will not listen to an empty [cry], Nor will the Almighty regard it. 35:14 "How much less when you say you do not behold Him, The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him! 35:15 "And now, because He has not visited [in] His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well, 35:16 So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge."