Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

2 What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?

Thinkest thou this to be right, [that] thou saidst, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

3 That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? [and], What profit shall I have, [if I be cleansed] from my sin?

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.

6 If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

7 If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

8 Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is a son of man.

Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art; ] and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

9 Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make [the oppressed] to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10 But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

But none saith, Where [is] God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

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

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

14 How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, [yet] judgment [is] before him; therefore trust thou in him.

15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,

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

16 so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.

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