Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

And Elihu answers and says:

2 Think you this to be right, that you said, 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 you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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

4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

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

6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to 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 you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

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

8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the 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 make the oppressed to 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 says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

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

11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, 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 you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

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

15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

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

16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.

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