And Elihu answered and said,
Hast thou counted this for judgment,{HR}[That] thou hast said, I am more right than God?
For thou askest what is the gain to thee,{HR}What profit shall I have, more than by my sin?
I will answer thee words, and with thee thy friends.
Look at the heavens, and see,{HR}And behold the clouds — they are higher than thee.
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him?{HR}Thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?
If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him?{HR}Or what receiveth he from thy hand?
Thy wickedness [is] to man like thyself,{HR}And thy righteousness to a son of man.
Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out,{HR}They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
But no man saith, Where [is] God [Eloah] my maker,{HR}That giveth songs in the night,
That teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,{HR}And maketh us wiser than the fowls of the heavens?
There they cry, but he answereth not,{HR}Because of the haughtiness of the wicked.
Surely God [El] doth not hear vanity,{HR}And the Almighty [Shaddia] beholdeth it not.
Though thou say thou seest him not,{HR}Judgment [is] before him, and wait thou on him.
And now, because his anger hath not punished aught,{HR}Doth he not very much regard insolence?
Therefore Job openeth his mouth to vanity,{HR}He multiplieth words without knowledge.