Jó 35

¹ Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

² Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?

³ For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

⁴ I will answer you, and your companions with you.

⁵ Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.

⁶ If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you unto him?

⁷ If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of yours hand?

⁸ Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.

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 But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

¹¹ Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

¹² There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴ Although you says you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.

¹⁵ But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:

¹⁶ Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.