Job 35

Revised Geneva Translation

35 Elihu spoke more, and said,

² “Do you think this right, that you have said, ‘I am more righteous than God’?

³ “For you have said, ‘What does it profit You, and what does it avail me, to purge me from my sin?’

⁴ “I will answer you, and your companions with you.

⁵ “Look to the heaven and see and behold that the clouds are higher than you.

⁶ “If you sin, what have you done against Him? Indeed, when your sins are many, what have you done to Him?

⁷ “If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

⁸ “Your wickedness is for a man such as you, and your righteousness for a son of man.

⁹ “They cause many who are oppressed to cry, cry out for the violence of the mighty.

¹⁰ “But no one says, ‘Where is God Who made me, Who gives songs in the night,

¹¹ ‘Who teaches us more than the beasts of the Earth, and gives us more wisdom than the birds of the heaven?’

¹² “Then they cry because of the violence of the wicked. But He does not answer.

¹³ “Surely God will not hear vanity, nor will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴ “Although you say, ‘You will not regard it’, judgment is still before Him. Trust in Him.

¹⁵ “But now, because His anger has not visited or called the evil to account with great extremity,

¹⁶ “therefore Job opens his mouth in vain, and multiplies words without knowledge.”