1. Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2. Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
3. For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4. I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5. Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6. If you sin, what do you do against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you do to him?
7. If you be righteous, what do you give him? or what does he receive from your hand?
8. Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9. Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
10. But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11. Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?
12. There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13. Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14. Although you say you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust in him.
15. But now, because it is not so, he has punished in his anger; yet he does not know it in his great distress:
16. Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.