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