# Job 35 (New King James Version)
Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness

##### Chapter 35
###### 1 Moreover Elihu answered and said:

###### 2 "Do you think this is right?  
Do you say,  
'My righteousness is more than God's'?  

###### 3 For you say,  
'What advantage will it be to You?  
What profit shall I have, more than _if_ I had sinned?'

###### 4 "I will answer you,  
And your companions with you.  

###### 5 Look to the heavens and see;  
And behold the clouds--  
They are higher than you.  

###### 6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him?  
Or, _if_ your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?  

###### 7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him?  
Or what does He receive from your hand?  

###### 8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you,  
And your righteousness a son of man.

###### 9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;  
They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.  

###### 10 But no one says, 'Where _is_ God my Maker,  
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 heaven?'  

###### 12 There they cry out, but He does not answer,  
Because of the pride of evil men.  

###### 13 Surely God will not listen to empty _talk,_  
Nor will the Almighty regard it.  

###### 14 Although you say you do not see Him,  
_Yet_ justice _is_ before Him, and you must wait for Him.  

###### 15 And now, because He has not punished in His anger,  
Nor taken much notice of folly,  

###### 16 Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain;  
He multiplies words without knowledge."