Hiob 35

1. ¹And Elihu answereth and saith: --
2. ²This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- `My righteousness `is' more than God's?'
3. ³For thou sayest, `What doth it profit Thee! What do I profit from my sin?'
4. ⁴I return thee words, and thy friends with thee,
5. ⁵Behold attentively the heavens -- and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
6. ⁶If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?
7. ⁷If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?
8. ⁸For a man like thyself `is' thy wickedness, And for a son of man thy righteousness.
9. ⁹Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.
10. ¹⁰And none said, `Where `is' God my maker? Giving songs in the night,
11. ¹¹Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'
12. ¹²There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.
13. ¹³Surely vanity God doth not hear, And the Mighty doth not behold it.
14. ¹⁴Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment `is' before Him, and stay for Him.
15. ¹⁵And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.
16. ¹⁶And Job `with' vanity doth open his mouth, Without knowledge words he multiplieth.

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