Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Moreover Elihu answered, and said,
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is a son of man.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.
