Job 35
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Elihu speaks of man's behaviour
Verse 1
WEB Moreover Elihu answered,
KJV Elihu spake moreover, and said,
TSK No cross references.
Verse 2
WEB “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
KJV Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
TSK Thinkest: mt 12:36,37, lu 19:22; My: job 9:17, job 10:7, job 16:17, job 19:6,7, job 27:2-6, job 34:5, job 40:8
Verse 3
WEB That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
KJV For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
TSK what advantage: job 9:21,22, job 10:15, job 21:15, job 31:2, job 34:9, ps 73:13, mal 3:14
Verse 5
WEB Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
KJV Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
TSK Look: job 22:12, job 25:5,6, job 36:26-33, job 37:1-5,22,23, 1ki 8:27, ps 8:3,4, isa 40:22,23, isa 55:9; the clouds: job 36:29, job 37:16, na 1:3
Verse 6
WEB If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
KJV If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
TSK If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?: pr 8:36, pr 9:12, jer 7:19
Verse 7
WEB If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
KJV If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
TSK If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?: job 22:2,3, 1ch 29:14, ps 16:2, pr 9:12, ro 11:35
Verse 8
WEB Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
KJV Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
TSK may hurt: jos 7:1-5, jos 22:20, ec 9:18, jon 1:12; may profit: job 42:8, ge 12:2, ge 18:24-33, ge 19:29, ps 106:23,30, eze 22:30, ac 27:24, heb 11:7
Why those who cry out under troubles are not regarded
Verse 9
WEB “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
KJV By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
TSK they make: job 24:12, job 34:28, ex 2:23, ex 3:7,9, ne 5:1-5, ps 12:5, ps 43:2, ps 55:2,3, ps 56:1,2, lu 18:3-7; the arm: job 40:9, ps 10:15
Verse 10
WEB But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
KJV But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
TSK none: job 36:13, 1ch 10:13,14, 2ch 28:22,23, isa 8:21; Where: ec 12:1, isa 51:13, 1pe 4:19; my: job 32:22, job 36:3, isa 54:5; who: ps 42:8, ps 77:6, ps 119:62, ps 149:5, ac 16:25
Verse 11
WEB who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
KJV Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
TSK Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?: job 32:8, ge 1:26, ge 2:7, ps 94:12
Verse 12
WEB There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
KJV There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
TSK There: ps 18:41, pr 1:28, joh 9:31; because: ps 73:6-8, ps 123:3,4, isa 14:14-17
Verse 13
WEB Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
KJV Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
TSK God: job 22:22-27, job 27:8,9, pr 15:8,29, pr 28:9, ec 5:1-3, isa 1:15, jer 11:11, ho 7:14, ho 8:2,3, mt 6:7, mt 20:21,22, jas 4:3; regard: job 30:20, ps 102:17, am 5:22
Elihu speaks sharp words to Job's impatience
Verse 14
WEB How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
KJV Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
TSK thou sayest: job 9:11, job 23:3,8-10; yet: job 9:19, job 19:7, ps 77:5-10, ps 97:2, isa 30:18, isa 54:17, mic 7:7-9; trust: ps 27:12-14, ps 37:5,6, ps 62:5,8, isa 50:10, ro 8:33,34
Verse 15
WEB But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.
KJV But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
TSK because: job 9:14, job 13:15, nu 20:12, lu 1:20; visited: ps 89:32, re 3:19; in great: job 4:5, job 30:15-31, ps 88:11-16, ho 11:8,9, heb 12:11,12
Verse 16
WEB Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
KJV Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
TSK Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.: job 3:1, job 33:2,8-12, job 34:35-37, job 38:2