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35 Then Elihu answered:

“Do you think this is ·fair [just]?
    You say, ‘·God will show that I am right [or I am more right than God],’
but you also ask, ‘What’s the use?
    ·I don’t gain [L How have I gained…?] anything by not sinning.’

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Elihu Sharply Reproves Job

35 Elihu continued speaking [to Job] and said,


“Do you think this is according to [your] justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

“For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]?
What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’

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