1 Moreover Elihu answered and said: |
2 "Do you think this is right? Do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's'? |
3 For you say, 'What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?' |
4 "I will answer you, And your companions with you. |
5 Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds--They are higher than you. |
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him? |
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand? |
8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man. |
9 "Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
10 But no one 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 birds of heaven?' |
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men. |
13 Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it. |
14 Although you say you do not see Him, Yet justice is before Him, and you must wait for Him. |
15 And now, because He has not punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly, |
16 Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge." |