Job 35

¹And Elihu answered and said :

²Do you think this to be just ? Do you say , It is my right before God ,

³that you ask , What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned ?

⁴I will answer you and your friends with you.

⁵Look at the heavens , and see ; and behold the clouds , which are higher than you.

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

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

⁸Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your a son of man .

⁹Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out ; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty .

¹⁰But none says , Where is God my Maker , who gives songs in the night ,

¹¹who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens ?

¹²There they cry out , but he does not answer , because of the pride of evil men .

¹³Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!

¹⁵And now , because his anger does not punish , and he does not take much note of transgression ,

¹⁶Job opens his mouth in empty talk ; he multiplies words without knowledge .