Job 35

¹Therefore Eliu again spake these words:

²Doth thy cogitation seem just to thee, that thou saidst: I am juster than God?

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

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

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

⁶If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? And if thine iniquities be multiplied, what shall thou do against him?

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

⁸Man that is like to thee, thy impiety shall hurt: and thy justice shall help the son of man.

⁹Because of the multitude of calumniators they shall cry: and shall wail for the force of the arm of tyrants.

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

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

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

¹³God therefore will not hear without cause, and the Omnipotent will behold the causes of every one.

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

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

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