Ch 35 / 42~1 min
IyovChapter 35
Elohim Is Not Silent — He Hears Every Cry
Elihu's rebuke that Elohim is not benefited by human righteousness underscores why Yeshua alone, whose obedience glorified the Father, is the only sufficient offering.
- Elihu: Your Sin Affects Others
Elihu argues that your sin or righteousness affects you and others, but Elohim remains above it all.
- 1Moreover Elihu answered,
- 2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than Elohim’s,’
- 3that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
- 4I will answer you, and your companions with you.
- 5Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
- 6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
- 7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
- 8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
- 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
- 10But no one says, ‘Where is Elohim my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
- 11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
- 12There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.
- 13Surely Elohim will not hear an empty cry, neither will the El Shaddai regard it.
- 14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
- 15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
- 16therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”