Job, Chapter 35:

Verses from Job, Chapter 35 of the book of Job in the Bible.

1. Then Elihu continued to speak:
2. “Do you think this is fair? You say, 'I will be justified by God.'
3. But you ask, 'What advantage have I, and what do I gain if I do not sin?'
4. “I will give an answer to you and your friends who are with you.
5. Look to the heavens and see; look at the clouds, so high.
6. If you sin, how will it affect you? If your sins are many, what will it do to you?
7. If you are righteous, what will you give to God? Or what will he receive from your hand?
8. Your impiety only affects people, your fellow human beings, and your justice only affects humans.
9. “People cry out under oppression; they beg for release from the arms of the powerful.
10. But no one says, 'Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
11. who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
12. When they cry, he does not answer, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13. Surely God does not hear vain prayer, and the Almighty does not consider it.
14. How much less when you say that you do not see him, that your cause is before him and you have to wait for him.
15. But now, because his anger does not punish, nor cares about transgression,
16. Job opens his mouth to vanities; he multiplies words in his ignorance.”