Job 35  21st Century King James Version

35 Elihu spoke 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?’

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 his great extremity.

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