ACV - Job - 35

35:1  Moreover Elihu answered, and said,

35:2  What is this thou think in judgment? Who are thou that thou said, I am righteousness before the Lord?

35:3  That thou said, What advantage will it be to thee? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?

35:4  I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

35:5  Look to the heavens, and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

35:6  If thou have sinned, what do thou effect against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what do thou to him?

35:7  If thou be righteous, what do thou give him? Or what does he receive of thy hand?

35:8  Thy wickedness is a man as thou are, and thy righteousness is 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 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 heavens?

35:12  There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

35:13  Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

35:14  How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

35:15  But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he greatly regard folly,

35:16  so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.