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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_35_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_35_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5822825 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_019_JOB_35_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Job. +Chapter 35. +And Elihu made answer and said, +Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, +What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong? +I will make answer to you and to your friends: +Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you. +If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? +If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand? +Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man. +Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong. +But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night; +Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven? +There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer. +But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it; +How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him. +And now ... ; +And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge. |