Job 35

1 and to answer Elihu and to say

Then Elihu continued, saying,

2 this to devise: think to/for justice to say righteousness my from God

“Do you think it's honest to claim you are right before God?

3 for to say what? be useful to/for you what? to gain from sin my

And you ask, ‘What benefit do I get? What good has it done me by not sinning?’

4 I to return: return you speech and [obj] neighbor your with you

I'll tell you, and your friends too!

5 to look heaven and to see: see and to see cloud to exult from you

Just look up at the sky and see. Observe the clouds high above you.

6 if to sin what? to work in/on/with him and to multiply transgression your what? to make: do to/for him

If you sin, how does that harm God? How do your many sins affect God?

7 if to justify what? to give: give to/for him or what? from hand your to take: recieve

If you do what's right, what good are you doing for him?

8 to/for man like you wickedness your and to/for son: child man righteousness your

No—your sins only affect people like yourself, and whatever good you do only affects them too.

9 from abundance oppression to cry out to cry from arm many

People cry out because of terrible persecution; they call for someone to save them from their oppressors.

10 and not to say where? god to make me to give: give song in/on/with night

But no one asks, ‘Where is the God my maker, the one who gives songs in the night,

11 to teach/learn us from animal land: soil and from bird [the] heaven be wise us

who teaches us more than the animals, and makes us wiser than the birds?’

12 there to cry and not to answer from face: because pride bad: evil

When they call out for help, God doesn't answer because they are proud and evil people.

13 surely vanity: vain not to hear: hear God and Almighty not to see her

God doesn't listen to their empty cries; the Almighty doesn't pay them any attention.

14 also for to say not to see him judgment to/for face: before his and to twist: anticipate to/for him

How much less will God hear you when you say he can't see you? Your case is before him, so you have to wait for him.

15 and now for nothing to reckon: punish face: anger his and not to know in/on/with folly much

You're saying that God doesn't punish people in his anger and pays little attention to sin.

16 and Job vanity to open lip his in/on/with without knowledge speech to multiply

You, Job, are talking nonsense, making long speeches when you know nothing!”