35:1 And Eli'hu said: |
35:2 "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,' |
35:3 that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off 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, which are higher than you. |
35:6 If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, 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 concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. |
35:9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the 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 beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?' |
35:12 There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. |
35:13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. |
35:14 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! |
35:15 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression, |
35:16 6 Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge." |