Job 35
1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
Moreover Elihu proceeded, and said:
2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
Dost thou then think this to be right? Thou hast said, “I am more righteous than God.”
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 thou askest, “What advantage have I? What have I gained, more than if I had sinned?”
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
I will answer thee, And thy companions with thee.
5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
Look up to the heavens, and see! And behold the clouds, which are high above thee!
6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against Him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou to him?
7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
If thou art righteous, what dost thou give him? Or what receiveth he at thy hand?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
Thy wickedness injureth only a man like thyself, And thy righteousness profiteth only a son of man.
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.
The oppressed cry out on account of the multitude of wrongs; They cry aloud on account of the arm of the mighty.
10 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
But none saith, “Where is God, my Maker, Who giveth songs in the night;
11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, And maketh us wiser than the birds of heaven?”
12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There they cry aloud on account of the pride of the wicked; But he giveth no answer.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
For God will not hear the vain supplication, Nor will the Almighty regard it;
14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
Much less when thou sayest thou canst not see him: Justice is with him, —only wait thou for him!
15 But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Nor taken strict note of transgression,
16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
Therefore hath Job opened his mouth rashly, And multiplied words without knowledge.
