Job 35

1 Moreover Elihu answered,

ὑπολαβὼν δὲ Ελιους λέγει

2 “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

τί τοῦτο ἡγήσω ἐν κρίσει σὺ τίς εἶ ὅτι εἶπας δίκαιός εἰμι ἔναντι κυρίου

3 that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

ἢ ἐρεῖς τί ποιήσω ἁμαρτών

4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.

ἐγὼ σοὶ δώσω ἀπόκρισιν καὶ τοῖς τρισὶν φίλοις σου

5 Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

ἀνάβλεψον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἰδέ κατάμαθε δὲ νέφη ὡς ὑψηλὰ ἀπὸ σοῦ

6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

εἰ ἥμαρτες τί πράξεις εἰ δὲ καὶ πολλὰ ἠνόμησας τί δύνασαι ποιῆσαι

7 If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

ἐπεὶ δὲ οὖν δίκαιος εἶ τί δώσεις αὐτῷ ἢ τί ἐκ χειρός σου λήμψεται

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

ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁμοίῳ σου ἡ ἀσέβειά σου καὶ υἱῷ ἀνθρώπου ἡ δικαιοσύνη σου

9 “By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

ἀπὸ πλήθους συκοφαντούμενοι κεκράξονται βοήσονται ἀπὸ βραχίονος πολλῶν

10 But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

καὶ οὐκ εἶπεν ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας με ὁ κατατάσσων φυλακὰς νυκτερινάς

11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

ὁ διορίζων με ἀπὸ τετραπόδων γῆς ἀπὸ δὲ πετεινῶν οὐρανοῦ

12 There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

ἐκεῖ κεκράξονται καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσακούσῃ καὶ ἀπὸ ὕβρεως πονηρῶν

13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

ἄτοπα γὰρ οὐ βούλεται ὁ κύριος ἰδεῖν αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ παντοκράτωρ ὁρατής ἐστιν

14 How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

τῶν συντελούντων τὰ ἄνομα καὶ σώσει με κρίθητι δὲ ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ εἰ δύνασαι αἰνέσαι αὐτόν ὡς ἔστιν

15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,

καὶ νῦν ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπισκεπτόμενος ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω παραπτώματι σφόδρα

16 therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

καὶ Ιωβ ματαίως ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ ῥήματα βαρύνει