Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered and said,

And Elihu answers and says:

2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

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

3 For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

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

4 I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.

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

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

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

7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth 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 wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness a son of man.

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

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty:

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

10 But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

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

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

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

12 There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men.

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

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

14 Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him.

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

15 But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?

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

16 For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.

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