Job 35

Berean Standard Bible

Chapter summary

Elihu continues his speech by addressing Job regarding his claims of righteousness and his questioning of divine justice. He directs Job to look up at the heavens and points out that human sin and righteousness affect other people rather than God Himself. Elihu notes that when people cry out under great oppression, they often fail to seek God their Maker, which explains why they receive no answer to their empty pleas. He further states that God does not take note when Job complains that he cannot see Him and that he must wait for Him. Elihu concludes that Job speaks in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.

Summary automatically generated from the Bible text.

Words of Jesus in red

¹And Elihu went on to say: ²“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ ³For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ ⁴I will reply to you and to your friends as well. ⁵Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. ⁶If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? ⁷If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? ⁸Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. ⁹Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, ¹¹who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ ¹²There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it. ¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, ¹⁵and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly! ¹⁶So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Test this chapter

Louis Segond 1910 and Berean Standard Bible: public domain. Cross references: open-cross-ref, Creative Commons BY 4.0.