Job 35 - Words without Knowledge

This is one of fears that bloggers who make open posts need to be careful about.

Listen to the words of the young advisor to Job. Do his words ring true?

https://www.biblegateway.com/audio/mclean/kjv/Job.35

Elihu Condemns Job

Job 35:1  Elihu spake moreover, and said,

Job 35:2  Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

Job 35:3  For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Job 35:4  I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Job 35:5  Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Job 35:6  If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Job 35:7  If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

Job 35:8  Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Job 35:9  By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Job 35:10  But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Job 35:11  Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Job 35:12  There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Job 35:13  Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

Job 35:14  Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Job 35:15  But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Job 35:16  Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

John Gill writes...

Job 35:16

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain,.... In uttering such unbecoming expressions, observed, and refuted, in his loud complaints of God, and of his dealings with him, and in defence of himself;

he multiplieth words without knowledge; both against God and in answer to others; being in a great measure ignorant of the nature and number of his sins, and of his afflictions; and of the end of God in them, and of the right he had to lay them upon him; us well as of his duty patiently to bear them, and trust in God, and wait his own time for deliverance out of them; and or the truth of this he was afterwards convinced, and acknowledged it, Job 42:3.

For the record the Bible clearly teaches that none of us even to this day can be righteous outside of Christ.

Rom 3:9  What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

Rom 3:10  As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

Rom 3:11  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Rom 3:21  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;

Rom 3:22  Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:

Rom 3:23  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Rom 3:24  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom 3:25  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Rom 3:26  To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.