Job, 35

¹ And E·liʹhu continued answering and saying:

² “Is this what you have regarded as justice? You have said, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s.’^*1

³ For you say, ‘Of what use is it to you? What benefit do I have more than by my sinning?’

⁴ I myself shall reply to you And to your companions^*1 with you.

⁵ Look up to heaven and see, And behold the clouds, [that] they are indeed higher than you.

⁶ If you actually sin, what do you accomplish against him? And [if] your revolts actually increase, what do you do to him?

⁷ If you are really in the right, what do you give him, Or what does he receive from your own hand?

⁸ Your wickedness may be against a man^*1 like you, And your righteousness to a son of earthling man.^*2

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions they keep calling for aid; They keep crying for help because of the arm of the great ones.

¹⁰ And yet no one has said, ‘Where is God^*1 my Grand Maker,^*2 The One giving melodies in the night?’

¹¹ He is the One teaching us more than the beasts^*1 of the earth, And he makes us wiser than even the flying creatures of the heavens.

¹² There they keep crying out, but he does not answer, Because of the pride of the bad ones.

¹³ Only the untruth God^*1 does not hear, And the Almighty himself does not behold it.

¹⁴ How much less, then, when you say you do not behold him! The legal case is before him, and so you should wait anxiously for him.

¹⁵ And now because his anger has not called for an accounting, He has also not taken note of the extreme rashness.

¹⁶ And Job himself opens his mouth wide simply for nothing; Without knowledge he multiplies mere words.”