Job 35

1 And Elihu went on to say:

ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιους λέγει

2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

τί τοῦτο ἡγήσω ἐν κρίσει σὺ τίς εἶ ὅτι εἶπας δίκαιός εἰμι ἔναντι κυρίου

3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

ἢ ἐρεῖς τί ποιήσω ἁμαρτών

4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

ἐγὼ σοὶ δώσω ἀπόκρισιν καὶ τοῖς τρισὶν φίλοις σου

5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἰδέ κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ

6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

εἰ ἥμαρτες τί πράξεις εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλὰ ἠνόμησας τί δύνασαι ποιῆσαι

7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν δίκαιος εἶ τί δώσεις αὐτῷ ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός σου λήμψεται

8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ σου ἡ ἀσέβειά σου καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου

9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

ἀπὸ πλήθους συκοφαντούμενοι κεκράξονται βοήσονται ἀπὸ βραχίονος πολλῶν

10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας με ὁ κατατάσσων φυλακὰς νυκτερινάς

11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

ὁ διορίζων με ἀπὸ τετραπόδων γῆς ἀπὸ δὲ πετεινῶν οὐρανοῦ

12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

ἐκεῖ κεκράξονται καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃ καὶ ἀπὸ ὕβρεως πονηρῶν

13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

ἄτοπα γὰρ οὐ βούλεται ὁ κύριος ἰδεῖν αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὁρατής ἐστιν

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,

τῶν συντελούντων τὰ ἄνομα καὶ σώσει με κρίθητι δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ εἰ δύνασαι αἰνέσαι αὐτόν ὡς ἔστιν

15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

καὶ νῦν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπισκεπτόμενος ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω παραπτώματι σφόδρα

16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

καὶ Ιωβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα βαρύνει