Ἰώβ 35

1 ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιους λέγει

Moreover Elihu answered,

2 τί τοῦτο ἡγήσω ἐν κρίσει σὺ τίς εἶ ὅτι εἶπας δίκαιός εἰμι ἔναντι κυρίου

“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

3 ἢ ἐρεῖς τί ποιήσω ἁμαρτών

that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

4 ἐγὼ σοὶ δώσω ἀπόκρισιν καὶ τοῖς τρισὶν φίλοις σου

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

5 ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἰδέ κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ

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

6 εἰ ἥμαρτες τί πράξεις εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλὰ ἠνόμησας τί δύνασαι ποιῆσαι

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

7 ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν δίκαιος εἶ τί δώσεις αὐτῷ ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός σου λήμψεται

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

8 ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ σου ἡ ἀσέβειά σου καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου

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

9 ἀπὸ πλήθους συκοφαντούμενοι κεκράξονται βοήσονται ἀπὸ βραχίονος πολλῶν

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

10 καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας με ὁ κατατάσσων φυλακὰς νυκτερινάς

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

11 ὁ διορίζων με ἀπὸ τετραπόδων γῆς ἀπὸ δὲ πετεινῶν οὐρανοῦ

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

12 ἐκεῖ κεκράξονται καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃ καὶ ἀπὸ ὕβρεως πονηρῶν

There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

13 ἄτοπα γὰρ οὐ βούλεται ὁ κύριος ἰδεῖν αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὁρατής ἐστιν

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

14 τῶν συντελούντων τὰ ἄνομα καὶ σώσει με κρίθητι δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ εἰ δύνασαι αἰνέσαι αὐτόν ὡς ἔστιν

How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

15 καὶ νῦν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπισκεπτόμενος ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω παραπτώματι σφόδρα

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

16 καὶ Ιωβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα βαρύνει

therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”