Job 35

1 And Elihu answers and says:

Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

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

This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said—My righteousness is more than GOD’S.

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

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

4 I return words, and your friends with you,

I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.

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

Look at the heavens and see, —and survey the skies—they are higher than 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 canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

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

If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

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

Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness [reach], and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.

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, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;

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

But none saith—Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth 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, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

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

There, [men] make outcry, and he answereth not, because of the arrogance of evil-doers.

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

Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard it.

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

How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait for him.

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

But, now, because it is not so, [thou sayest] —His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;

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

Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.