Job 35

Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)

Berean Standard Bible

1Moreover Eliu spoke these words:

1And Elihu went on to say:

2Doth thy thought seem right to thee, that thou shouldst say: I am more just than God?

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

3For thou saidst: That which is right doth not please thee: or what will it profit thee if I sin?

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

4Therefore I will answer thy words, and thy friends with thee.

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

5Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.

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

6If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him?

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

7And if thou do justly, what shalt thou give him, or what shall he receive of thy hand?

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

8Thy wickedness may hurt a man that is like thee: and thy justice may help the son of man.

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

9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they shall cry out: and shall wail for the violence of the arm of tyrants.

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

10And he hath not said: Where is God, who made me, who hath given songs in the night?

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

11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and instructeth us more than the fowls of the air.

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

12There shall they cry, and he will not hear, because of the pride of evil men.

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

13God therefore will not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into the causes of every one.

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

14Yea when thou shalt say: He considereth not: be judged before him, and expect him.

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,

15For he doth not now bring on his fury, neither doth he revenge wickedness exceedingly.

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

16Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.

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

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