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    Job · 16 verses

    Job 35

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    The God who gives songs in the night appears amid cries for relief—and, Elihu says, does not answer them.

    Elihu weighs righteousness against the heavensvv. 1–8

    Elihu continues by challenging Job’s claim that his righteousness surpasses God’s. He lifts the argument above the clouds: sin and righteousness may affect human beings, but neither adds anything to God’s hand. It is a lofty calculation, with Job’s complaint set beneath an even loftier sky.

    Cries beneath the songs of the nightvv. 9–16

    Elihu turns from Job’s words to the cries of the oppressed. They plead for release, yet he says they do not ask where God their Maker is—the God who gives songs in the night and teaches human beings wisdom beyond the beasts and birds. Their cries therefore go unanswered, which is a remarkably dark companion to those nocturnal songs. Elihu ends by saying that Job’s waiting, protest, and words are all in vain.

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    1. Job 35:1And Elihu went on to say:

    2. Job 35:2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

    3. Job 35:3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

    4. Job 35:4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

    5. Job 35:5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

    6. Job 35:6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

    7. Job 35:7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

    8. Job 35:8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

    9. Job 35:9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

    10. Job 35:10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

    11. Job 35:11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

    12. Job 35:12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

    13. Job 35:13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

    14. Job 35:14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

    15. Job 35:15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

    16. Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

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    • 11Psalms 94:12Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law,
    • 3Job 34:9For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’
    • 6Jeremiah 7:19But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
    • 10Psalms 42:8The LORD decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.
    • 6Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
    • 7Job 22:2–3“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
    • 7Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
    • 9Exodus 2:23After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.
    • 10Acts 16:25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.
    • 10Psalms 149:5Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds.
    • 13Proverbs 15:29The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
    • 16Job 38:2“Who is this who obscures My counsel by words without knowledge?
    • 5Job 22:12Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
    • 7Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.
    • 7Luke 17:10So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
    • 7Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”

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