8No, your sins affect only people like yourself,
and your good deeds also affect only humans.
9“People cry out when they are oppressed.
They groan beneath the power of the mighty.
10Yet they don’t ask, ‘Where is God my Creator,
the one who gives songs in the night?
11Where is the one who makes us smarter than the animals
and wiser than the birds of the sky?’
12And when they cry out, God does not answer
because of their pride.
13But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen,
to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.
14You say you can’t see him,
but he will bring justice if you will only wait.
15You say he does not respond to sinners with anger
and is not greatly concerned about wickedness.
16But you are talking nonsense, Job.
You have spoken like a fool.”
