Job 35
1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:
And Elihu went on to say:
2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?
For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.
Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?
But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14 Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.
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,
15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.
and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
