Hiob 35

1. ¹Moreover Elihu answered and said,
2. ²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3. ³For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?
4. ⁴I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.
5. ⁵Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
6. ⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7. ⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?
8. ⁸Thy wickedness [ergänzt: may affect] a man as thou [ergänzt: art], and thy righteousness a son of man.
9. ⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:
10. ¹⁰But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,
11. ¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?
12. ¹²There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.
13. ¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14. ¹⁴Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.
15. ¹⁵But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [ergänzt: Job] know [ergänzt: his] great arrogancy?
16. ¹⁶For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

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