New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 34
36 Job, you deserve the maximum penalty for the wicked way you have talked.
37 For you have added rebellion to your sin; you show no respect, and you speak many angry words against God.”
Job 35
1 Then Elihu said:
2 “Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?
3 For you also ask, ‘What’s in it for me? What’s the use of living a righteous life?’
4 “I will answer you and all your friends, too.
5 Look up into the sky, and see the clouds high above you.
6 If you sin, how does that affect God? Even if you sin again and again, what effect will it have on him?
7 If you are good, is this some great gift to him? What could you possibly give him?
8 No, your sins affect only people like yourself, and your good deeds also affect only humans.
9 “People cry out when they are oppressed. They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
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