Then Elihu answered and said:

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

Do you think this is justice, when you say, 'My righteousness is greater than God's'?

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

For you ask, 'What advantage is it to me? What do I gain by not sinning?'

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

I will answer you and your companions who are with you.

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

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

If you sin, what do you accomplish against God? Even if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

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

If you are righteous, what do you give to Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

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

Your wickedness affects only a person like yourself, and your righteousness only a child of humanity.

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

People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.

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

But no one asks, 'Where is God, my Maker, who gives songs in the night?'

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

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky.

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

There they cry out, but He does not answer because of the pride of evil men.

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

Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not regard them.

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

Even though you say you do not see Him, your case is before Him, and you must wait for Him.

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

And now, because His anger does not punish, and He does not take note of human transgressions in full measure,

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

Job opens his mouth with empty words; without knowledge, he multiplies his speech.

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