Job 35

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 Then Elihu proceeded and said:	1 And Elihu said:
2 Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"	2 "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
3 To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"	3 that you ask, 'What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
4 I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.	4 I will answer you and your friends with you.
5 Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.	5 Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are 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 have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?	7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does 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 wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of 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 oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,	10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives 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 more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'
12 Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.	12 There they cry out, but he does not 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 does not hear an empty cry, nor does 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 How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting 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 And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression,
16 Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.	16 Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."