Job 35

1 And Elihu answereth and saith: —

Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — 'My righteousness [is] more than God's?'

What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?

3 For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

4 I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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

Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

7 If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

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

Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is a son of man.

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

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

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

But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night,

11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?

12 There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

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

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

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

14 Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

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

But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,

16 And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.