Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Elihu spake moreouer, and said,
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie 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,
Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.
