Job 35, side by side

¹Moreover Elihu answered,

¹Elihu spake moreover, and said,

²“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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

³that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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

⁴I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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

⁵Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

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

⁶If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

⁷If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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

⁸Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

⁸Thy 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 cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

¹⁰But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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

¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

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

¹²There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

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

¹³Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

¹⁴How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

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

¹⁵But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

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

¹⁶Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

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