Job 35

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Then Elihu proceeded and said:	1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2 Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"	2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3 To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"	3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4 I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.	4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5 Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.	5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6 If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?	6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?	7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8 Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.	8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9 In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,	9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10 Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,	10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11 Taught us rather than the beasts of the earth, and made us wise rather than the birds of the heavens?"	11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12 Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.	12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.	13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14 Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.	14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15 But now that you have done otherwise, God's anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.	15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.	16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.