Job 35

1 And Elihu answers and says:

Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

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

Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

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

For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

4 I return words, and your friends with you,

Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

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

Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

6 If you have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to Him?

If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?

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

And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

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

Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

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

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

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

And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

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

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

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

There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.

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

God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

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

Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.

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

For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

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

Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.