35:1 And Elihu answered and said, |
35:2 "Do you think this to be right, you that say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'? |
35:3 For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' |
35:4 I will answer your words, and your companions with you. |
35:5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds; they are higher than you. |
35:6 If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? |
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? |
35:8 Your wickedness may hurt a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit the son of man. |
35:9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; they cry out because of the powerful arm of the mighty. |
35:10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night; |
35:11 Who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?' |
35:12 There they cry, but He gives no answer, because of the pride of evildoers. |
35:13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. |
35:14 How much less when you say you do not see Him! The cause is before Him; you must wait for Him. |
35:15 And now because it is not so, He has visited in anger yet he does not understand even his great extremity. |
35:16 Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies his words without knowledge." |