Job 35

1 And Elius resumed and said,

Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

2 What is this that you think to be according to right? who are you that you have said, I am righteous before the Lord?

“Zar ti misliš da pravo svoje braniš, da pravednost pred Bogom dokazuješ,

3 I will answer you, and your three friends.

kada mu kažeš: 'Što ti je to važno, i ako griješim, što ti činim time?'

4 Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high [they are] above you.

Na sve to ja ću odgovorit' tebi i prijateljima tvojim ujedno.

5 If you have sinned, what will you do?

Po nebu se obazri i promatraj! Gledaj oblake: od tebe su viši!

6 and if too you have transgressed much, what can you perform?

Ako griješiš, što si mu uradio, prijestupom svojim što si mu zadao?

7 And suppose you are righteous, what will you give him? or what shall he receive of your hand?

Ako si prav, što si dodao njemu i što iz ruke tvoje on dobiva?

8 Your ungodliness [may affect] a man who is like to you; or your righteousness a son of man.

Opakost tvoja tebi slične pogađa i pravda tvoja čovjeku koristi.

9 They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many.

Ali kad ispod teškog stenju jarma, kad vapiju na nasilje moćnika,

10 But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches;

nitko ne kaže: 'Gdje je Bog, moj tvorac, koji noć pjesmom veselom ispunja,

11 who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

umnijim nas od zvijeri zemskih čini i mudrijima od ptica nebeskih?'

12 There they shall cry, and none shall listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men.

Tad vapiju, al' on ne odgovara poradi oholosti zlikovaca.

13 For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One.

Ali kako je isprazno tvrditi da Bog njihove ne čuje vapaje, da pogled na njih ne svraća Svesilni!

14 He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do you plead before him, if you can praise him, as it is [possible] even now.

A kamoli tek kada ti govoriš: 'On ne vidi mene, parnica moja pred njime stoji, a ja na nj još čekam.'

15 For he is not [now] regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass.

Ili: 'Njegova srdžba ne kažnjava, nimalo on za prijestupe ne mari.'

16 Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words.

Isprazno tada otvara Job usta i besjede gomila nerazumne.”