Job 35

1 And Elius resumed and said,

And Elihu answers and says:

2 What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord?

“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?

3 I will answer thee, and thy three friends.

For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

4 Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above thee.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do?

Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than you.

6 and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform?

If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to Him?

7 And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand?

If you have been righteous, What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?

8 Thy ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man.

For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, And for a son of man your righteousness.

9 They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

10 But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,

11 who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.

12 There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

There they cry, and He does not answer, Because of the pride of evildoers.

13 For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

Surely God does not hear vanity, And the Mighty does not behold it.

14 He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for Him.

15 For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

And now, because there is not, He has appointed His anger, And He has not known in great extremity.

16 Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, He multiplies words without knowledge.”