Elihu Condemns Job

35 Moreover,[fn] Elihuspoke up[fn] and said,

• 2 is justice when you say, ‘[fn] before God’?
• 3  ‘How do I benefit[fn]
• 4 [fn][fn] and to your friends with you.
• 5 the heavens, and see; and observe the clouds that are higher than you.
• 6  And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
• 7  or what does he receive from your hand?
• 8 affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness affects humans.
• 9 the multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.
• 10 [fn] no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• 11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’
• 12 [fn] he does not answer[fn]
• 13  and Shaddai does not regard it.
• 14 [fn] when you say that you do not see him, that the case is[fn] and you are waiting for him!
• 15 [fn] now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not acknowledge the transgression at all,
• 16 [fn] Job opens his mouth in empty talk— without knowledge he multiplies words.”