Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

And Elihu answers and says:

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

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

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

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

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

I return words, and your friends with you,

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

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

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

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

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

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

8 Thy wickedness [may hurt] a man as thou [art]: and thy righteousness [may profit] the son of man.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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