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35:1 Elihu continued and said: 35:2 "Do you think this to be just? You say, 'I am in the right before God.' 35:3 If you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' 35:4 I will answer you and your friends with you. 35:5 Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you. 35:6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, 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 affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings. 35:9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. 35:10 But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night, 35:11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?' 35:12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers. 35:13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. 35:14 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! 35:15 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression, 35:16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."