Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

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

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

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

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 plainly, and thy friends with thee.

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 saith—Where is GOD my maker, Who giveth songs in the night;

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

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

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

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

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

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

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty 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 you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you 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 now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

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

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