Job 35

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Elihu continued his speech. He said:	1 Moreover Eliu spoke these words :
2 Do you think you can prove yourself upright and establish your uprightness before God	2 Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say : I am more just than God?
3 by daring to say to him, 'What does it matter to you, or how does it benefit me, whether I have sinnedor not?'	3 For thou saidst : That which is right doth not please thee : or what will it profit thee if I sin?
4 Very well, I shal tel you and your friends as wel .	4 Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.
5 Take a look at the skies and see, observe how high the clouds are above you.	5 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
6 If you sin, how can you affect him? If you heap up crimes, what effect has it on him?	6 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?
7 If you are upright, what do you give him, what benefit does he receive at your hands?	7 And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?
8 Your wickedness affects only your fel ows, your uprightness, other human beings.	8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee : and thy justice may help the son of man.
9 They too groan under the weight of oppression, they cry for help under the tyranny of the mighty,	9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out : and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.
10 but none of them thinks of saying, 'Where is God, my Maker, who makes glad songs ring out at night,	10 And he hath not said : Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?
11 who has made us more intel igent than wild animals wiser than birds in the sky?'	11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.
12 Cry they may, but get no answer, to be spared from the arrogance of the wicked.	12 There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Of course God does not listen to trivialities, Shaddai pays no attention to them.	13 God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.
14 And how much less when you say, 'I cannot see him, my case is open and I am waiting for him.'	14 Yea when thou shalt say : He considereth not : be judged before him, and expect him.
15 Or, 'His anger never punishes, he does not seem aware of human rebel ion.'	15 For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.
16 Hence, when Job speaks, he talks nonsense, ignorantly babbling on and on.	16 Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.