| | 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." | |
