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Chapter 35

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Then Elihu proceeded and said:

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Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?"

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To say, "What does it profit me; what advantage have I more than if I had sinned?"

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¹ I have words for a reply to you and your three companions as well.

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Look up to the skies and behold; regard the heavens high above you.

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If you sin, what injury do you do to God? Even if your offenses are many, how do you hurt him?

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If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand?

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Your wickedness can affect only a man like yourself; and your justice only a fellow human being.

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In great oppression men cry out; they call for help because of the power of the mighty,

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Saying, "Where is God, my Maker, who has given visions in the night,

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Taught us rather than the beasts of the earth, and made us wise rather than the birds of the heavens?"

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Though thus they cry out, he answers not against the pride of the wicked.

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But it is idle to say God does not hear or that the Almighty does not take notice.

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² Even though you say that you see him not, the case is before him; with trembling should you wait upon him.

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But now that you have done otherwise, God's anger punishes, nor does he show concern that a man will die.

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Yet Job to no purpose opens his mouth, and without knowledge multiplies words.