Job 35

Clementine Vulgate, 1598

World English Bible

1Igitur Eliu hæc rursum locutus est:

1Moreover Elihu answered,

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

2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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

3that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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

4I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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

5Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

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

6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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

8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

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

9“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

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

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

11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

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

12There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.

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

13Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

14How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

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

15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,

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

16therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

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