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I will answer you,
    and your companions with you.
Look to the skies, and see.
    See the skies, which are higher than you.
If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him?
    If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
If you are righteous, what do you give him?
    Or what does he receive from your hand?
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are,
    and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

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I’m going to respond to that statement,
    and to your friends with you.”

God’s Justice Remains Unsullied

“Observe the heavens! Take a look around!
    Look! The clouds are higher than you, aren’t they?
If you sin, what will that do to harm him?
    If you add transgression to transgression
        what will it do to him?
If you are righteous, what will you add to him?
    What can God receive from your efforts?[a]
Your wickedness affects only[b] yourself;
    and your righteousness, only human beings.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 35:7 Lit. hand
  2. Job 35:8 The Heb. lacks only
  3. Job 35:8 Lit. only a son of man