Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
[Numquid æqua tibi videtur tua cogitatio, ut diceres: Justior sum Deo?
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est: vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis, et amicis tuis tecum.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Suspice cælum, et intuere: et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
Si peccaveris, quid ei nocebis? et si multiplicatæ fuerint iniquitates tuæ, quid facies contra eum?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Porro si juste egeris, quid donabis ei? aut quid de manu tua accipiet?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Homini qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua: et filium hominis adjuvabit justitia tua.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Propter multitudinem calumniatorum clamabunt, et ejulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
Et non dixit: Ubi est Deus qui fecit me, qui dedit carmina in nocte;
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
qui docet nos super jumenta terræ, et super volucres cæli erudit nos?
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet, propter superbiam malorum.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
Non ergo frustra audiet Deus, et Omnipotens causas singulorum intuebitur.
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,
Etiam cum dixeris: Non considerat: judicare coram illo, et expecta eum.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
Nunc enim non infert furorem suum, nec ulciscitur scelus valde.
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Ergo Job frustra aperit os suum, et absque scientia verba multiplicat.]
