Elihu Recalls God’s Justice
And Elihu went on to say:
“Do you think this is just? Mat 12:36-37Job 10:7Job 16:17Job 19:6-7Job 27:2-6Job 34:5Job 40:8Job 9:17
You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ 1
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, Job 34:9Mal 3:14Job 10:15Job 21:15Job 31:2Job 9:21-22Job 9:30-31Psa 73:13
and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
I will reply to you Job 34:8Pro 13:20
and to your friends as well.
Look to the heavens and see; Job 22:12Isa 55:9Isa 40:22-23Nam 1:31Ki 8:27Gen 15:5Job 25:5-6Job 36:26
gaze at the clouds high above you.
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Jer 7:19Pro 8:36Pro 9:12
If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, Job 22:2-3Psa 16:2Luk 17:10Pro 9:12Rom 11:351Ch 29:14
or what does He receive from your hand?
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, Act 27:24Ecc 9:18Ezk 22:30Gen 12:2Gen 18:24-33Gen 19:29Heb 11:7Job 42:8
and your righteousness only a son of man.
Men cry out under great oppression; Exo 2:23Job 34:28Exo 3:7Exo 3:9Job 12:19Job 24:12Job 40:9Luk 18:3-7
they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, Psa 42:8Act 16:25Psa 149:5Psa 77:6Isa 51:131Pe 4:19Ecc 12:1Isa 54:5
who gives us songs in the night,
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth Psa 94:12Job 32:8Job 36:22Gen 1:26Gen 2:7
and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
There they cry out, but He does not answer, Jhn 9:31Pro 1:28Psa 123:3-4Isa 14:14-17Psa 18:41Psa 73:6-8
because of the pride of evil men.
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, Pro 15:29Isa 1:15Jas 4:3Jer 11:11Pro 15:8Amo 5:22Ecc 5:1-3Hos 7:14
and the Almighty does not take note of it.
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, Job 9:11Isa 30:18Isa 50:10Isa 54:17Job 19:7Job 23:3Job 23:8-10Job 9:19
that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
and further, that in His anger He has not punished Psa 89:32Heb 12:11-12Hos 11:8-9Job 13:15Job 30:15-31Job 4:5Job 9:14Luk 1:20
or taken much notice of folly!
So Job opens his mouth in vain Job 38:2Job 33:8-12Job 34:35-37Job 3:1Job 33:2
and multiplies words without knowledge.”