35:1  Then Elihu continued and said,

35:2   "Do you think this stands according to justice? Do you say, 'My righteousness I consider more than God's'?

35:3   "For you say, ' What advantage will it seem to You? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?'

35:4  "I will answer you, And your friends with you.

35:5   " Look at the heavens and see; And behold the clouds--they appear higher than you.

35:6   "If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions prove many, what do you do to Him?

35:7   "If you have righteousness, what do you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?

35:8   "Your wickedness you reserve for a man like yourself, And your righteousness you reserve for a son of man.

35:9   "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

35:10   "But no one says, 'Where do I find God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

35:11   Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

35:12   "There they cry out, but He does not answer Because of the pride of evil men.

35:13   "Surely God will not listen to an empty cry, Nor will the Almighty regard it.

35:14   "How much less when you say you do not behold Him, The case has gone before Him, and you must wait for Him!

35:15   "And now, because He has not visited in His anger, Nor has He acknowledged transgression well,

35:16   So Job opens his mouth emptily; He multiplies words without knowledge."