{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/web/job/35","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:20:52.482Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":35,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":34,"nextChapter":36,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":16},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Moreover Elihu answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I will answer you, and your companions with you."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 35 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 35](https://primebible.com/web/job/35)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/35 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}