Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

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

Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

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

For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

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

If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?

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

If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?

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

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

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

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

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

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

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

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

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

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

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

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

But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

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

Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.