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?'

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

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

For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned?

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

I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

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

Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they 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 sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto 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 givest thou to him? or what doth he receive of thy hand?

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

Thy wickedness [may affect] a man as thou [art], and thy righteousness 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.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out 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, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens?

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

There they cry, and he answereth not, 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 vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore 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 hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?

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

For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge.