The Book of Job Chapter 35& 36 ESV Version.

Welcome back to Reading with Ben! Let's continue the lecture on the book of Job. This is episode #19 chapters 35 and 36. Job Chapter 35, Elihu continues speaking. It’s not right, he says, for Job to assert his righteousness and to ask, “How am I better off than if I had sinned?” Elihu will answer him and his friends. He tells Job to observe the skies. Elihu says that neither Job’s transgressions nor his righteousness actually give God anything. Rather, these things affect other human beings. Job Chapter 36, Elihu keeps talking; he still has something to say on God’s behalf. God, he says, is mighty in every way. He doesn’t sustain the wicked but gives the afflicted what they deserve. If the afflicted have sinned, God instructs them accordingly, commanding them to change their ways. If they do, they will spend the rest of their days happily; if they persist in sinning, they will die by violence.