Job 35
1After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:
2Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”
3For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”
4And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
5Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
6If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
7Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?
8Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.
9Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.
10Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,
11who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”
12There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.
14And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.
15For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.
16Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.
1Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?
3For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.