Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said—My righteousness is more than GOD’S.
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Look at the heavens and see, —and survey the skies—they 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 sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness [reach], and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason 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 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 air?’
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There, [men] make outcry, and he answereth not, because of the arrogance of evil-doers.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not 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 sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait for him.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
But, now, because it is not so, [thou sayest] —His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.
