35:1 Then Elihu said:
35:2 Do you think this is just? You say, `I shall be cleared by God.’ [Or My righteousness is more than God’s]
35:3 Yet you ask him, `What profit is it to me, [Or you] and what do I gain by not sinning?’
35:4 I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
35:5 Look up at the heavens and see gaze at the clouds so high above you.
35:6 If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
35:8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only the sons of men.
35:9 Men cry out under a load of oppression they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
35:10 But no-one says, `Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
35:11 who teaches more to us than to [Or teaches us by] the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than [Or us wise by] the birds of the air?’
35:12 He does not answer when men cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
35:13 Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea the Almighty pays no attention to it.
35:14 How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
35:15 and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness. [Symmachus, Theodotion and Vulgate the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.]
35:16 So Job opens his mouth with empty talk without knowledge he multiplies words.