Job 35
1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words:
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3 For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?
For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than 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 against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the 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.
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of 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 none says, Where is God my maker, who gives 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 fowls of heaven?
12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry, but none gives 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 will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
