1 And Elihu went on to say:
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ | TOSK |
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ | TOSK |
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well. | TOSK |
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. | TOSK |
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? | TOSK |
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? | TOSK |
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. | TOSK |
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. | TOSK |
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, | TOSK |
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ | TOSK |
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. | TOSK |
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it. | TOSK |
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, | TOSK |
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly! | TOSK |
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.” | TOSK |