Job 35

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Then Elihu proceeded and said:	1 After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:
2 Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"	2 Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”
3 To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"	3 For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”
4 I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.	4 And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.
5 Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.	5 Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
6 If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?	6 If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?	7 Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.	8 Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.
9 In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,	9 Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.
10 Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,	10 Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given 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 teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”
12 Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.	12 There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.	13 Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.
14 Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.	14 And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.
15 But now that you have done otherwise, God's anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.	15 For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.
16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.	16 Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.