< Job 35 >

1 And Elihu answers and says:
Elihu spake moreouer, and said,
2 “Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have said, My righteousness [is] more than God’s?
Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?
3 For you say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?
For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?
4 I return words, and your friends with you,
Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than you.
Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.
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 sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?
7 If you have been righteous, What do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?
8 For a man like yourself [is] your wickedness, And for a son of man your righteousness.
Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.
9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.
10 And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving songs in the night,
But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?
11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Indeed, He makes us wiser than the bird of the heavens.
Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.
12 There they cry, and He does not answer, Because of the pride of evildoers.
Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.
13 Surely God does not hear vanity, And the Mighty does not behold it.
Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.
14 Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for Him.
Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.
15 And now, because there is not, He has appointed His anger, And He has not known in great extremity.
But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,
16 And Job opens his mouth [with] vanity, He multiplies words without knowledge.”
Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.

< Job 35 >