Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered,

ELIHU spake moreover, and said,

2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

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

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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

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

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will Shaddai regard it.

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

14 How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.