Job 35

¹And Elihu answereth and saith: —

²This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said — 'My righteousness [is] more than God's?'

³For thou sayest, 'What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'

⁴I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,

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

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

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

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

⁹Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰And none said, 'Where [is] God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

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

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

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

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

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

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