Job 35 (NET)

Job 35:1¹Then Elihu answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Job 35:2²“Do you think this to be just when you say, ‘My right before God’?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 12:36-37Job 10:7Job 16:17Job 19:6-7Job 27:2-6Job 34:5Job 40:8Job 9:17Luke 19:22

Job 35:3³But you say, ‘What will it profit you,’ and, ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 34:9Mal 3:14Job 10:15Job 21:15Job 31:2Job 9:21-22Job 9:30-31Ps 73:13

Job 35:4⁴I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 34:8Prov 13:20

Job 35:5⁵Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 22:12Isa 55:9Isa 40:22-23Nah 1:31 Kgs 8:27Gen 15:5Job 25:5-6Job 36:26-37:5Job 37:16Job 37:22-23

Job 35:6⁶If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 7:19Prov 8:36Prov 9:12

Job 35:7⁷If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 22:2-3Ps 16:2Luke 17:10Prov 9:12Rom 11:351 Chr 29:14

Job 35:8⁸Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 27:24Eccl 9:18Ezek 22:30Gen 12:2Gen 18:24-33Gen 19:29Heb 11:7Job 42:8Jonah 1:12Josh 22:20

Job 35:9⁹“People cry out because of the excess of oppression; they cry out for help because of the power of the mighty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:23Job 34:28Exod 3:7Exod 3:9Job 12:19Job 24:12Job 40:9Luke 18:3-7Neh 5:1-5Ps 10:15

Job 35:10¹⁰But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 42:8Acts 16:25Ps 149:5Ps 77:6Isa 51:131 Pet 4:19Eccl 12:1Isa 54:5Job 36:131 Chr 10:13-14

Job 35:11¹¹who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 94:12Job 32:8Job 36:22Gen 1:26Gen 2:7

Job 35:12¹²Then they cry out—but he does not answer— because of the arrogance of the wicked.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:31Prov 1:28Ps 123:3-4Isa 14:14-17Ps 18:41Ps 73:6-8

Job 35:13¹³Surely it is an empty cry —God does not hear it; the Almighty does not take notice of it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 15:29Isa 1:15Jas 4:3Jer 11:11Prov 15:8Amos 5:22Eccl 5:1-3Hos 7:14Hos 8:2-3Job 22:22-27

Job 35:14¹⁴How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 9:11Isa 30:18Isa 50:10Isa 54:17Job 19:7Job 23:3Job 23:8-10Job 9:19Mic 7:7-9Ps 27:12-14

Job 35:15¹⁵And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 89:32Heb 12:11-12Hos 11:8-9Job 13:15Job 30:15-31Job 4:5Job 9:14Luke 1:20Num 20:12Ps 88:11-16

Job 35:16¹⁶So Job opens his mouth to no purpose; without knowledge he multiplies words.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 38:2Job 33:8-12Job 34:35-37Job 3:1Job 33:2