Job 35

CLV^{(i) 1} Then Elihu continued to answer and said: ² Is this what you reckon as right judgment? Do you say, This is my righteousness before El, ³ When you ask, How is it profitable to me? What more do I benefit than if I had sinned? ⁴ I myself shall reply to you with declarations, And to your associates with you. ⁵ Look at the heavens and see; Regard the skies; they are loftier than you. ⁶ If you sin, what effect do you have on Him, And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or what does He take from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness affects a man like yourself, And your righteousness a son of humanity. ⁹ Under a multitude of extortions they cry out; They implore under the arm of those with great power. ¹⁰ But not one has said, Where is Eloah, my Maker, Who is giving psalms in the night, ¹¹ Training us by the beasts of the earth, And by the flier of the heavens, He makes us wise? ¹² There they cry (yet He does not answer) Because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Yea, it is futility; El does not hear, And He Who Suffices does not regard it. ¹⁴ How much less when you complain you are not regarding Him, That adjudication is set before Him, and you are awaiting Him? ¹⁵ And now because He does not visit His anger And does not acknowledge the transgression of humanity, ¹⁶ Job is opening his mouth wide with vanity; He makes declarations abound without knowledge.