Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu, responded and said: —

And Elihu answers and says:

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

“Have you reckoned this for judgment [when] you have 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 say, What does it profit You? What do I profit from my sin?

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

I return words, and your friends with you,

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

Behold attentively the heavens—and see, And behold the clouds, They have been 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 have sinned, what do you do against Him? And your transgressions have been multiplied, What do you do to Him?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And none said, Where [is] God my Maker? Giving 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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