Job 35
1 igitur Heliu haec rursum locutus est
Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2 numquid aequa tibi videtur tua cogitatio ut diceres iustior Deo sum
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 to 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 caelum et intuere et contemplare aethera quod altior te sit
Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6 si peccaveris quid ei nocebis et si multiplicatae fuerint iniquitates tuae quid facies contra eum
If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to 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 heiulabunt 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 terrae et super volucres caeli 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 singulorum causas intuebitur
Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 etiam cum dixeris non considerat iudicare coram eo 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.
