Job 35

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,	1 Elihu continued his speech. He said:
2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?	2 Do you think you can prove yourself upright and establish your uprightness before God
3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?	3 by daring to say to him, 'What does it matter to you, or how does it benefit me, whether I have sinnedor not?'
4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.	4 Very well, I shal tel you and your friends as wel .
5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.	5 Take a look at the skies and see, observe how high the clouds are above you.
6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?	6 If you sin, how can you affect him? If you heap up crimes, what effect has it on him?
7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?	7 If you are upright, what do you give him, what benefit does he receive at your hands?
8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.	8 Your wickedness affects only your fel ows, your uprightness, other human beings.
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.	9 They too groan under the weight of oppression, they cry for help under the tyranny of the mighty,
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;	10 but none of them thinks of saying, 'Where is God, my Maker, who makes glad songs ring out at night,
11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?	11 who has made us more intel igent than wild animals wiser than birds in the sky?'
12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.	12 Cry they may, but get no answer, to be spared from the arrogance of the wicked.
13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.	13 Of course God does not listen to trivialities, Shaddai pays no attention to them.
14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.	14 And how much less when you say, 'I cannot see him, my case is open and I am waiting for him.'
15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:	15 Or, 'His anger never punishes, he does not seem aware of human rebel ion.'
16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.	16 Hence, when Job speaks, he talks nonsense, ignorantly babbling on and on.