Job 35

1 And Elihu answereth and saith: —

Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

2 This hast thou reckoned for judgment: 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 sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from 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 return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

I will answer you, and your companions with you.

5 Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.

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

6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

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

7 If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

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

8 For a man like thyself [is] thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.

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

9 Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because 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 And none said, 'Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

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

11 Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

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

12 There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

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

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

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

14 Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment [is] before Him, and stay for Him.

Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

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

But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

16 And Job [with] vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

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