35:1 Then Elihu said:
35:2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
35:3 Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,* and what do I gain by not sinning?’ / *Or you
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 only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
35:9 “People 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 us more than he teaches* the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than** the birds in the sky?’ / *Or night, / 11 who teaches us by / **Or us wise by
35:12 He does not answer when people 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.”