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." |