Job 35

1 Elihu spake moreouer, and said,

And Elihu answers and says:

2 Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?

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

3 For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?

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

4 Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then 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, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto 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 giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

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

8 Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

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

9 They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.

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

10 But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

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

11 Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.

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

12 Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.

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

13 Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.

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

14 Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.

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

15 But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,

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

16 Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

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