35:1 | | And Elihu made answer and said, |
35:2 | | Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say, |
35:3 | | What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong? |
35:4 | | I will make answer to you and to your friends: |
35:5 | | Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you. |
35:6 | | If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him? |
35:7 | | If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand? |
35:8 | | Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man. |
35:9 | | Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong. |
35:10 | | But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night; |
35:11 | | Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven? |
35:12 | | There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer. |
35:13 | | But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it; |
35:14 | | How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him. |
35:15 | | And now ... ; |
35:16 | | And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge. |