Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

Elihu spake moreouer, and said,

2 This, dost thou think to be right? Thou hast said—My righteousness is more than GOD’S.

Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous then God?

3 For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee and what auaileth it me, to purge me from my sinne?

4 I, will answer thee plainly, and thy friends with thee.

Therefore will I answere thee, and thy companions with thee.

5 Look at the heavens and see, —and survey the skies—they are higher than thou.

Looke vnto the heauen, and see and behold the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

6 If thou sinnest, what canst thou work against him? Or, if thy transgressions be multiplied, what canst thou do unto him?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sinnes be many, what doest thou vnto him?

7 If thou art righteous, what canst thou give unto him? Or what, at thy hand, can he accept?

If thou be righteous, what giuest thou vnto him? or what receiueth he at thine hand?

8 Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness [reach], and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.

Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousnes may profite ye sonne of man.

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions, [men] make outcry, They cry for help, by reason of the arm of the mighty;

They cause many that are oppressed, to crye, which crye out for ye violence of the mightie.

10 But none saith—Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

But none saieth, Where is God that made me, which giueth songs in the nyght?

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and, beyond the bird of the heavens, giveth us wisdom?

Which teacheth vs more then the beastes of the earth, and giueth vs more wisdome then the foules of the heauen.

12 There, [men] make outcry, and he answereth not, because of the arrogance of evil-doers.

Then they crye because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.

13 Howbeit, vanity, will GOD not hear, Yea, the Almighty, will not regard it.

Surely God will not heare vanitie, neyther will the Almightie regard it.

14 How much less when thou sayest thou wilt not regard him! The cause, is before him, and thou must wait for him.

Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.

15 But, now, because it is not so, [thou sayest] —His anger hath punished, and yet hath he not at all known of transgression;

But nowe because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the euill with great extremitie,

16 Thus, Job, vainly openeth his mouth, Without knowledge, he multiplieth words.

Therfore Iob openeth his mouth in vaine, and multiplieth wordes without knowledge.