Job 35:1-8

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

35 Elihu spoke further [to Job] and said,

² Do you think this is your right, or are you saying, My righteousness is more than God’s,

³ That you ask, What advantage have you? How am I profited more than if I had sinned?

⁴ I will answer you and your companions with you.

⁵ Look to the heavens and see; and behold the skies which are higher than you.

⁶ If you have sinned, how does that affect God? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

⁷ If you are righteous, what do you [by that] give God? Or what does He receive from your hand?

⁸ Your wickedness touches and affects a man such as you are, and your righteousness is for yourself, one of the human race [but it cannot touch God, Who is above such influence].