Job 35  Jubilee Bible 2000

35 ¶ Elihu proceeded in his reasoning and said,

² Dost thou think this to be right, when thou didst say, I am more righteous than God?

³ For thou didst say, What advantage will it be unto thee? And, What profit shall I have, if I am cleansed from my sin?

⁴ I will answer thee and thy companions with thee.

⁵ Look unto the heavens and see; and behold the heavens which are higher than thou.

⁶ If thou dost sin, what hast thou done against him? Or if thy rebellion is multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

⁷ If thou art righteous, what shalt thou give him? Or what shall he receive of thine hand?

⁸ Thy wickedness shall hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness shall profit the son of man.

⁹ ¶ By reason of the great violence they shall call out; they cry out because of the strength of the many.

¹⁰ But no one shall say, 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 shall cry, but he shall give no answer because of the pride of those that are evil.

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

¹⁴ ¶ For much that thou dost say, he will not look upon it, submit to judgment before him, and trust thou in him.

¹⁵ But now, because he has not visited in wrath; nor is it known in great extremity;

¹⁶ therefore, Job opened his mouth in vain and multiplied words without knowledge.