Job 35 · איוב

Then Elihu spoke, and said,

Thinkst thou this to be right, that thou dost say, My righteousness is more than God’s?

For thou dost say, What advantage will it be to thee? and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

If thou hast sinned, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou for him?

If thou art righteous, what givest thou him? or what does he receive of thy hand?

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

By reason of the multitude of oppressors the oppressed cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

who teaches us by the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser by the birds of the sky?

There, when they cry he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it.

Although thou sayst, Thou wilt not regard it, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust in him.

But now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not heed the multitude of the words,

therefore does Iyyov open his mouth in vain, and multiplies words without knowledge.