Job

Job

35
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Job 35 records Elihu's challenge to Job's claim that his righteousness exceeds God's, arguing that human sin or righteousness does not profit the Almighty either way, though it does affect one's fellow man. He observes that people cry out in pain but do not seek God who gives songs in the night, and that God does not answer because of pride. Elihu concludes that although Job claims he cannot see God, judgment is still before Him and Job should trust Him, and he asserts that Job opens his mouth in vain, multiplying words without knowledge.

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(1) Elihu spake moreover, and said,
(2) Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
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(3) For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
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(4) I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 34:8Proverbs 13:20

(5) Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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(6) If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 8:36Proverbs 9:12Jeremiah 7:19

Related verses (shared words)

Genesis 4:7III John 1:5Isaiah 59:12

(7) If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
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(8) Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
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(9) By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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(10) But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
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(11) Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 32:8Genesis 1:26Genesis 2:7Psalms 94:12

Related verses (shared words)

Isaiah 18:6Genesis 7:8Acts 10:12Acts 11:6

(12) There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
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(13) Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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(14) Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
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(15) But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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(16) Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
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