Job 35

Berean Standard Bible

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

1And Elihu went on to say:

1Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:

2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

2[Numquid æqua tibi videtur tua cogitatio, ut diceres: Justior sum Deo?

3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

3Dixisti enim: Non tibi placet quod rectum est: vel quid tibi proderit, si ego peccavero?

4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

4Itaque ego respondebo sermonibus tuis, et amicis tuis tecum.

5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

5Suspice cælum, et intuere: et contemplare æthera quod altior te sit.

6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

6Si peccaveris, quid ei nocebis? et si multiplicatæ fuerint iniquitates tuæ, quid facies contra eum?

7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

7Porro si juste egeris, quid donabis ei? aut quid de manu tua accipiet?

8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

8Homini qui similis tui est, nocebit impietas tua: et filium hominis adjuvabit justitia tua.

9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

9Propter multitudinem calumniatorum clamabunt, et ejulabunt propter vim brachii tyrannorum.

10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

10Et non dixit: Ubi est Deus qui fecit me, qui dedit carmina in nocte;

11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

11qui docet nos super jumenta terræ, et super volucres cæli erudit nos?

12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

12Ibi clamabunt, et non exaudiet, propter superbiam malorum.

13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

13Non ergo frustra audiet Deus, et Omnipotens causas singulorum intuebitur.

14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

14Etiam cum dixeris: Non considerat: judicare coram illo, et expecta eum.

15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

15Nunc enim non infert furorem suum, nec ulciscitur scelus valde.

16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

16Ergo Job frustra aperit os suum, et absque scientia verba multiplicat.]

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