[1] Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
[2] Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God’s?
[3] For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
[4] I will answer you, and your companions with you.
[5] Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
[6] If you sin, what do you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him?
[7] If you be righteous, what give you him? or what receives he of your hand?
[8] Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your 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 says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
[11] Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
[12] There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
[13] Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
[14] Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
[15] But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he knows it not in great extremity:
[16] Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.
