Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

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

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

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

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

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

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Look at the heavens and see, —and survey the skies—they are higher than thou.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds [which] are higher than thou.

6 If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or [if] thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

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

If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?

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

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, [men] make outcry, 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 saith—Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

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

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

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

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

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

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

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

14 How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must 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 it is not so, [thou sayest] —His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;

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

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

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