Job 35
1 Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 Numquid æqua tibi videtur tua cogitatio, ut diceres: Iustior sum Deo?
Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
3 Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est: vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?
For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis, et amicis tuis tecum.
I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5 Suspice cælum et intuere, et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 Si peccaveris, quid ei nocebis? et si multiplicatæ fuerint iniquitates tuæ, quid facies contra eum?
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?
7 Porro si iuste egeris, quid donabis ei, aut quid de manu tua accipiet?
If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
8 Homini, qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua: et filium hominis adiuvabit iustitia tua.
Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 Propter multitudinem calumniatorum clamabunt: et eiulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum.
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 Et non dixit: Ubi est Deus, qui fecit me, qui dedit carmina in nocte,
But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11 Qui docet nos super iumenta terræ, et super volucres cæli erudit nos.
Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet, propter superbiam malorum.
There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Non ergo frustra audiet Deus, et Omnipotens causas singulorum intuebitur.
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Etiam cum dixeris: Non considerat: iudicare coram illo, et expecta eum.
Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
15 Nunc enim non infert furorem suum, nec ulciscitur scelus valde.
But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
16 Ergo Iob frustra aperit os suum, et absque scientia verba multiplicat.
Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
