(NLT) Job 35 : 1 Then Elihu said:
(NLT) Job 35 : 2 "Do you think it is right for you to claim, 'I am righteous before God'?
(NLT) Job 35 : 3 For you also ask, 'What's in it for me? What's the use of living a righteous life?'
(NLT) Job 35 : 4 "I will answer you and all your friends, too.
(NLT) Job 35 : 5 Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
(NLT) Job 35 : 6 If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?
(NLT) Job 35 : 7 If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him?
(NLT) Job 35 : 8 No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.
(NLT) Job 35 : 9 "People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
(NLT) Job 35 : 10 Yet they don't ask, 'Where is God my Creator, the one who gives songs in the night?
(NLT) Job 35 : 11 Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals and wiser than the birds of the sky?'
(NLT) Job 35 : 12 And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.
(NLT) Job 35 : 13 But it is wrong to say God doesn't listen, to say the Almighty isn't concerned.
(NLT) Job 35 : 14 You say you can't see him, but he will bring justice if you will only wait.
(NLT) Job 35 : 15 You say he does not respond to sinners with anger and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.
(NLT) Job 35 : 16 But you are talking nonsense, Job. You have spoken like a fool."