Job 35

1 Elihu spake moreover, and said,⋮

2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?⋮

3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?⋮

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.⋮

5 Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.⋮

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?⋮

7 If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?⋮

8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.⋮

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.⋮

10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;⋮

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?⋮

12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.⋮

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.⋮

14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.⋮

15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:⋮

16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.⋮