NHEBJE - Job - 35

35:1  Moreover Elihu answered,

35:2  "Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

35:3  That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

35:4  I will answer you, and your companions with you.

35:5  Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

35:6  If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

35:7  If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

35:8  Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

35:9  "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason 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 animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

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, neither will the Almighty regard it.

35:14  How much less when you say you do not see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

35:15  But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

35:16  Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge."