Book of Job, Chapter 35
Job 35 NWT - New World TranslationChapter 35 of Job—New World Translation (NWT)
- ¶ And E·liʹhu continued answering and saying:
- ¶ “Is this what you have regarded as justice?
You have said, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s.’[a]1 - ¶ For you say, ‘Of what use is it to you?2
What benefit do I have more than by my sinning?’3 - ¶ I myself shall reply to you
And to your companions[b]4 with you. - ¶ Look up to heaven5 and see,
And behold the clouds,6 [that] they are indeed higher than you. - ¶ If you actually sin, what do you accomplish against him?7
And [if] your revolts actually increase, what do you do to him? - ¶ If you are really in the right, what do you give him,
Or what does he receive from your own hand?8 - ¶ Your wickedness may be against a man[c] like you,9
And your righteousness to a son of earthling man.[d]10 - ¶ Because of the multitude of oppressions they keep calling for aid;11
They keep crying for help because of the arm of the great ones.12 - ¶ And yet no one has said, ‘Where is God[e] my Grand Maker,[f]13
The One giving melodies in the night?’14 - ¶ He is the One teaching15 us more than the beasts[g] of the earth,16
And he makes us wiser than even the flying creatures of the heavens. - ¶ There they keep crying out, but he does not answer,17
Because of the pride18 of the bad ones. - ¶ Only the untruth God[h] does not hear,19
And the Almighty himself does not behold it.20 - ¶ How much less, then, when you say you do not behold him!21
The legal case is before him, and so you should wait anxiously for him.22 - ¶ And now because his anger has not called for an accounting,23
He has also not taken note of the extreme rashness.24 - ¶ And Job himself opens his mouth wide simply for nothing;
Without knowledge he multiplies mere words.”25
FOOTNOTES
- ^ “More than God’s.” Heb., me·ʼElʹ; LXX, “Jehovah.”
- ^ “Companions,” M; LXX, “three friends.”
- ^ “Against a man.” Heb., leʼishʹ.
- ^ “Earthling man.” Heb., ʼa·dhamʹ.
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼElohʹah.
- ^ “Grand Maker,” pl. in M, to denote excellence and grandeur, although “God” is sing.
- ^ Or, “the domestic animals.”
- ^ “God.” Heb., ʼEl.
REFERENCES
- ^ Jb 10:7; 16:17; 34:5
- ^ Jb 21:15; 34:9
- ^ Jb 9:22; Ps 73:13; Ml 3:14
- ^ Jb 2:11
- ^ Jb 22:12
- ^ Ps 68:34
- ^ Pr 8:36; 9:12; Je 7:19
- ^ Ps 16:2; Ro 11:35
- ^ Pr 19:3; Ga 6:7
- ^ Eze 33:16
- ^ Ex 2:23; Jb 34:28; Pr 29:2
- ^ Ps 10:15
- ^ Is 51:13; 1Pe 4:19; Re 4:11
- ^ Ps 42:8; 77:6; 149:5; Ac 16:25
- ^ Ps 94:12; Is 48:17
- ^ Ge 1:26; Pr 30:24
- ^ Ps 18:41; Pr 1:28
- ^ 1Pe 5:5
- ^ Pr 15:29; Is 1:15; Je 11:11
- ^ Hab 1:13
- ^ Jb 9:11
- ^ Ps 37:5
- ^ Ps 89:32
- ^ Ps 103:12
- ^ Jb 34:35; 38:2
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