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35:1 Then Elihu <0453> answered <06030>: 35:2 “Do you think <02803> this <02063> to be just <04941>: when you say <0559>, ‘My right <06664> before God <0410>.’ 35:3 But <03588> you say <0559>, ‘What <04100> will it profit <05532> you,’ and, ‘What <04100> do I gain <03276> by not sinning <02403>?’ 35:4 I <0589> will reply <04405> <07725> to you, and to your friends <07453> with <05973> you. 35:5 Gaze <05027> at the heavens <08064> and see <07200>; consider <07789> the clouds <07834>, which are higher <01361> than <04480> you! 35:6 If <0518> you sin <02398>, how <04100> does it affect <06466> God? If your transgressions <06588> are many <07231>, what <04100> does it do <06213> to him? 35:7 If <0518> you are righteous <06663>, what <04100> do you give <05414> to God, or <0176> what <04100> does he receive <03947> from your hand <03027>? 35:8 Your wickedness <07562> affects only a person <0376> like <03644> yourself, and your righteousness <06666> only other people <0120> <01121>. 35:9 “People cry out <02199> because of the excess <07230> of oppression <06217>; they cry out for help <07768> because of the power <02220> of the mighty <07227>. 35:10 But no <03808> one says <0559>, ‘Where <0335> is God <0433>, my Creator <06213>, who gives <05414> songs <02158> in the night <03915>, 35:11 who teaches <0502> us more than the wild animals <0929> of the earth <0776>, and makes us wiser <02449> than the birds <05775> of the sky <08064>?’ 35:12 Then <08033> they cry out <06817>– but he does not <03808> answer <06030>– because <06440> of the arrogance <01347> of the wicked <07451>. 35:13 Surely <0389> it is an empty cry <07723>– God <0410> does not <03808> hear <08085> it; the Almighty <07706> does not <03808> take notice <07789> of it. 35:14 How much <0637> less, then, when you say <0559> that you do not <03808> perceive <07789> him, that the case <01779> is before <06440> him and you are waiting <02342> for him! 35:15 And further <06258>, when you say that <03588> his anger <0639> does not <0369> punish <06485>, and that he does not <03808> know <03045> transgression <06580>!

• Job 35:1-16 -- Elihu's Third Speech

• Elihu

  [ebd] whose God is he. (1.) "The son of Barachel, a Buzite" (Job 32:2), one of Job's friends. When the debate between Job and his friends is brought to a close, Elihu for the first time makes his appearance, and delivers his opini...
  [nave] ELIHU 1. A Buzite and one of Job's three friends, Job 32-37. 2. Son of Tohu, 1 Sam. 1:1. Probably identical with Eliel, 1 Chr. 6:34, and Eliab, 1 Chr. 6:27. 3. A Manassite warrior, who joined David at Ziklag, 1 Chr. 12:20...
  

• Job

  [nave] JOB 1. A man who dwelt in Uz, Job 1:1. Righteousness of, Job 1:1, 5, 8; 2:3; Ezek. 14:14, 20. Riches of, Job 1:3. Trial of, by affliction of Satan, Job 1:13-19; 2:7-10. Fortitude of, Job 1:20-22; 2:10; Jas. 5:11. Visite...
  

• Mankind

  [nave] MANKIND. Index of Sub-topics Created; Created in the Image of God; Design of the Creation of; Dominion of; Duty of; Equality of; Ignorance of; Immortal; Insignificance of; Little Lower than the Angels; Mortal; Spirit; Stat...
  

• God

  [nave] GOD. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Access to; Compassion of; Creator; Creator of Mankind; Eternity of; Faithfulness of; Fatherhood of; Favor of; Foreknowledge of; Glory of; Goodness of...
  

• Religion

  [nave] RELIGION. False Deut. 32:31-33. See: Idolatry; Intolerance; Teachers, False. Family See: Family. National Supported by taxes, Ex. 30:11-16; 38:26. Priests supported by the State, 1 Kin. 18:19; 2 Chr. 11:13-15. Subve...
  

• Self-righteousness

  [nave] SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS. Num. 16:3; Deut. 9:4-6; 1 Sam. 2:9; Job 6:13; Job 11:4-6; Job 12:2; Job 13:3, 13, 15, 19; Job 16:17, 18; Job 18:2-4; Job 21:27-29; Job 22:2, 3; Job 32:1, 2; Job 33:8, 9; Job 35:2, 7, 8; Psa. 10:5, 6; Pro...
  

• HEAVEN

  [ebd] (1.) Definitions. The phrase "heaven and earth" is used to indicate the whole universe (Gen. 1:1; Jer. 23:24; Acts 17:24). According to the Jewish notion there were three heavens, (a) The firmament, as "fowls of the heaven" ...
  [smith] There are four Hebrew words thus rendered in the Old Testament which we may briefly notice. Raki?a , Authorized Version, firmament. [FIRMAMENT] Shamayim . This is the word used in the expression "the heaven and the earth," o...
  

• Wisdom

  [nave] WISDOM Of Joseph, Gen. 41:16, 25-39; Acts 7:10. Of Moses, Acts 7:22. Of Bezaleel, Ex. 31:3-5; 35:31-35; 36:1. Of Aholiab, Ex. 31:6; 35:34, 35; 36:1; of other skilled artisans, Ex. 36:2; of women, Ex. 35:26. Of Hiram, 1 K...
  

• Wicked

  [nave] WICKED Compared with: Abominable branches, Isa. 14:19; ashes under the feet, Mal. 4:3; bad fishes, Matt. 13:48; beasts, Psa. 49:12; 2 Pet. 2:12; the blind, Zeph. 1:17; Matt. 15:14; bronze and iron, Jer. 6:28; Ezek. 22:18; br...
  

• Godlessness

  [nave] GODLESSNESS. Deut. 7:10; Deut. 32:15; 1 Sam. 2:30; Job 8:11-13; Job 35:10; Psa. 2:2, 4; Psa. 9:17; Psa. 10:4; Psa. 14:2, 3 Psa. 53:2, 3; Rom. 3:11, 18. Psa. 28:5 Isa. 5:12. Psa. 36:1; Psa. 50:22; Psa. 52:7; Psa. 53:4; Psa. ...
  

• Rulers

  [nave] RULERS Appointed and removed by God. See: Government, God in. Chastised, Dan. 4. See: Nation. Monarchical, See: Kings. Patriarchal, Gen. 27:29, 37. Instances of Nimrod, Gen. 10:8-10. Abraham, Gen. 14:13-24; 17:6; 21:2...
  

• Infidelity

  [nave] INFIDELITY. Gen. 3:1 v. 4.; Ex. 5:2; Ex. 14:11 v. 12;; Ex. 16:3, 7; Num. 14:27-34; 16:41; 21:5. Ex. 17:7; Num. 15:30 v. 31.; Deut. 29:19, 20 v. 21.; Deut. 32:15; 1 Kin. 20:28; 1 Kin. 22:24; 2 Kin. 2:23 v. 24.; 2 Chr. 30:6, ...
  

• Animals

  [nave] ANIMALS Creation of, Gen. 1:24, 25; 2:19; Jer. 27:5. Food of, Gen. 1:30. Named, Gen. 2:20. Ordained as food for mankind, Gen. 9:2, 3; Lev. 11:3, 9, 21, 22; Deut. 14:4-6, 9, 11, 20. God's care of, Gen. 9:9, 10; Deut. 25:4...
  

• EXTREME; EXTREMITY

  [isbe] EXTREME; EXTREMITY - eks-trem', eks-trem'-i-ti We have the adjective "extreme" in 2 Esdras 5:14, "extreme fear," the Revised Version (British and American) "trembling"; in The Wisdom of Solomon 12:27, "extreme (terma) damnat...
  

• ARM

  [isbe] ARM - arm (zeroa`, 'ezroa`, dera`; brachion; chotsen, katheph): The usual form is zeroa` from the root zara`, "to spread." The arm may be "stretched out." 'Ezroa` is this form with prosthetic 'aleph (Job 31:22; Jer 32:21), a...
  

• ADVANTAGE

  [isbe] ADVANTAGE - ad-van'-taj (cakhan): In Job 35:3 is interpreted in succeeding clause as "profit." In Rom 3:1 perissos, is likewise interpreted by a paraphrase in the next sentence. the Revised Version (British and American) pre...
  

• NIGHT

  [isbe] NIGHT - nit. See DAY AND NIGHT for the natural usage and the various terms. 1. In the Old Testament: Figurative uses: The word "night" (laylah or layil is sometimes used figuratively in the Old Testament. Thus, Moses compare...
  

• OPPRESSION

  [isbe] OPPRESSION - o-presh'-un: Used in the King James Version to translate a variety of Hebrew words, all of which, however, agree in the general sense of wrong done by violence to others. There are a few cases where the referenc...
  

• Afflictions and Adversities

  [nave] AFFLICTIONS AND ADVERSITIES. List of Sub-Topics Miscellany of Minor Sub-Topics; Unclassified Scriptures Relating to; Benefits of; Benefits of, Illustrated; Consolation in; Deliverance from; Design of; Despondency in; Dispe...
  

• SKY

  [isbe] SKY - ski (shachaq, "fine dust" or "cloud," apparently from [?] shachaq, "to rub," "to pulverize"; Samaritan: shechaqayyah instead of Hebrew shamayim; sachq = "cloud," "small dust"): 1. In the Old Testament: The Revised Vers...
  

A Song in the Heart; Psalm 42:8

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