Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered,

Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

2 "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

“Zar ti misliš da pravo svoje braniš, da pravednost pred Bogom dokazuješ,

3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

kada mu kažeš: 'Što ti je to važno, i ako griješim, što ti činim time?'

4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

Na sve to ja ću odgovorit' tebi i prijateljima tvojim ujedno.

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

Po nebu se obazri i promatraj! Gledaj oblake: od tebe su viši!

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

Ako griješiš, što si mu uradio, prijestupom svojim što si mu zadao?

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

Ako si prav, što si dodao njemu i što iz ruke tvoje on dobiva?

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

Opakost tvoja tebi slične pogađa i pravda tvoja čovjeku koristi.

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

Ali kad ispod teškog stenju jarma, kad vapiju na nasilje moćnika,

10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

nitko ne kaže: 'Gdje je Bog, moj tvorac, koji noć pjesmom veselom ispunja,

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

umnijim nas od zvijeri zemskih čini i mudrijima od ptica nebeskih?'

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

Tad vapiju, al' on ne odgovara poradi oholosti zlikovaca.

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will Shaddai regard it.

Ali kako je isprazno tvrditi da Bog njihove ne čuje vapaje, da pogled na njih ne svraća Svesilni!

14 How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him.

A kamoli tek kada ti govoriš: 'On ne vidi mene, parnica moja pred njime stoji, a ja na nj još čekam.'

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

Ili: 'Njegova srdžba ne kažnjava, nimalo on za prijestupe ne mari.'

16 Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."

Isprazno tada otvara Job usta i besjede gomila nerazumne.”