35:1  Then Elihu continued and said,

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

35:3  "For you say, `What advantage will it be 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 are higher than you.

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

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

35:8  "Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, And your righteousness is 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 is 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 is 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."