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Chapter 35 · Douay–Rheims / Challoner

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Chapter XXXV · Location 35 of 42

Chapter 35 · Open to read

From Job · Douay–Rheims / Challoner (1749–1752)

What does Job Chapter 35 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

Eliu questions Job and asks him to look at the sky. He contrasts questions about harming or giving to God with human wickedness and justice affecting people. He speaks of oppressors, songs in the night, pride and judgment, ending with his charge of words without knowledge.

Chapter breakdown

Eliu asks whether Job's thought is right in saying he is more just than God, and reports the words about right not pleasing and what profit there is if he sins. He will answer Job and his friends. He directs attention to heaven and the sky higher than man and asks what sin, multiplied iniquity or just conduct can hurt or give to God. He says wickedness may hurt a similar man and justice may help the son of man; this remains Eliu's argument.

In Eliu’s speech, eliu speaks of crying under many oppressors and the violent arm of tyrants, and of not asking where God the maker is, who gives songs at night and teaches more than beasts and birds. He says they cry and God does not hear because of the pride of evil men. He adds that God will not hear in vain and the Almighty will look into everyone's causes. The wording does not independently identify every oppressed person as selfish or lacking sincere faith.

In Eliu’s speech, even when saying God does not consider, Eliu calls for judgment before Him and expectation of Him. He says God does not now bring fury or avenge wickedness exceedingly, and concludes Job opens his mouth vainly and multiplies words without knowledge. The separate heading summarizes Eliu's declaration about human good or evil not reaching God.

The story inside

Opening: Eliu questions Job and asks him to look at the sky. Development: He contrasts questions about harming or giving to God with human wickedness and justice affecting people. Conclusion: He speaks of oppressors, songs in the night, pride and judgment, ending with his charge of words without knowledge.

Lessons worth keeping

  1. 1
    Eliu questions Job and asks him to look at the sky.
  2. 2
    He contrasts questions about harming or giving to God with human wickedness and justice affecting people.
  3. 3
    He speaks of oppressors, songs in the night, pride and judgment, ending with his charge of words without knowledge.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

  1. Lines 57074–57084

    35:5. Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee. 35:6. If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? 35:7. And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand? 35:8. Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
  2. Lines 57086–57093

    35:9. By reason of the multitude of oppressors they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants. 35:10. And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night? 35:11. Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
  3. Lines 57107–57108

    35:16. Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

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