Job 35

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words :	1 Then Elihu proceeded and said:
2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say : I am more just than God?	2 Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"
3 For thou saidst : That which is right doth not please thee : or what will it profit thee if I sin?	3 To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"
4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.	4 I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.
5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.	5 Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.
6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?	6 If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?
7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?	7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee : and thy justice may help the son of man.	8 Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.
9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out : and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.	9 In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,
10 And he hath not said : Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?	10 Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.	11 Taught us rather than the beasts of the earth, and made us wise rather than the birds of the heavens?"
12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.	12 Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.
13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.	13 But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.
14 Yea when thou shalt say : He considereth not : be judged before him, and expect him.	14 Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.
15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.	15 But now that you have done otherwise, God's anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.
16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.	16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.