Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

And Elihu answereth and saith: —

2 Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast 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 thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

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

I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

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 thou.

6 If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?

If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

7 If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy 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, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

12 There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

14 Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay 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 hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

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

And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.