Job 35

1 Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:

And Elihu answers and says:

2 [Numquid æqua tibi videtur tua cogitatio, ut diceres: Justior sum Deo?

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

3 Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est: vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?

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

4 Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis, et amicis tuis tecum.

I return words, and your friends with you,

5 Suspice cælum, et intuere: et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.

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

6 Si peccaveris, quid ei nocebis? et si multiplicatæ fuerint iniquitates tuæ, quid facies contra eum?

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

7 Porro si juste egeris, quid donabis ei? aut quid de manu tua accipiet?

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

8 Homini qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua: et filium hominis adjuvabit justitia tua.

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

9 Propter multitudinem calumniatorum clamabunt, et ejulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum.

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

10 Et non dixit: Ubi est Deus qui fecit me, qui dedit carmina in nocte;

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

11 qui docet nos super jumenta terræ, et super volucres cæli erudit nos?

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

12 Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet, propter superbiam malorum.

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

13 Non ergo frustra audiet Deus, et Omnipotens causas singulorum intuebitur.

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

14 Etiam cum dixeris: Non considerat: judicare coram illo, et expecta eum.

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

15 Nunc enim non infert furorem suum, nec ulciscitur scelus valde.

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

16 Ergo Job frustra aperit os suum, et absque scientia verba multiplicat.]

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