Summary

Job 35:6 (ESV)

6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Elihu portrays God as Eliphaz had portrayed him (Job 22:2–3): distant and unaffected by human actions. This is not how God reveals himself in the Bible, however. God is grieved by sin (Genesis 6:6) and he rejoices over repentance (Isaiah 62:5; Luke 15:7, Luke 15:10).