Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
And Elihu went
on
to
say
:
And Elihu answereth
and
saith
: --
“Do
you
think
this is just?
You
say,
‘I
am
more righteous
than God.’
This hast
thou
reckoned
for
judgment:
Thou
hast
said
--
`My
righteousness
`
is '
more than God's?'
For you
ask
, ‘
What does
it profit me,
and
what benefit
do I gain
apart
from sin? ’
For thou
sayest
, `
What doth
it profit Thee!
What do I profit
from my
sin? '
I will
reply
to
you
and to
your
friends as
well.
I return
thee
words,
and thy
friends with
thee,
Look
to
the heavens and see ;
gaze
at
the clouds high
above
you
.
Behold
attentively
the heavens --
and see ,
And
behold
the clouds ,
They
have
been
higher
than
thou
.
If you
sin
, what do
you
accomplish
against Him? If
you
multiply
your
transgressions, what do
you
do
to Him?
If thou
hast
sinned
, what dost
thou
against Him? And
thy
transgressions have
been
multiplied
, What dost
thou
to Him?
If you
are
righteous, what do
you
give Him ,
or what does
He
receive
from your
hand?
If thou
hast
been
righteous, What dost
thou
give to
Him ?
Or what from thy
hand doth
He
receive
?
Your
wickedness
affects
only
a man like yourself
, and your
righteousness
only
a son of man.
For
a man like thyself
`is'
thy
wickedness
, And for
a son of man thy
righteousness
.
Men
cry out under
great
oppression;
they plead
for
relief
from
the arm of the mighty.
Because
of
the
multitude
of
oppressions
They
cause
to
cry out ,
They cry
because
of
the arm of the mighty.
But
no
one
asks
, ‘
Where is God my Maker ,
who
gives
us
songs in the night,
And
none
said
, `
Where `
is '
God my maker ?
Giving
songs in the night,
who
teaches
us more than the beasts of the earth and
makes
us
wiser
than the birds
of the air?’
Teaching
us more than the beasts of the earth ,
Yea,
than the fowl
of the heavens
He
maketh
us
wiser.'
There they cry out
, but
He does
not answer, because of the pride of evil men
.
There they cry, and
He doth
not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers
.
Surely God does
not listen
to
empty
pleas
, and the Almighty
does
not take
note
of
it.
Surely vanity
God doth
not hear
, And the Mighty
doth
not behold
it.
How
much
less,
then
, when
you
say
that
you
do
not see
Him, that
your
case
is before Him and you
must
wait
for Him ,
Yea
, though
thou
sayest
thou
dost
not behold
Him, Judgment
`
is '
before Him ,
and stay
for Him .
and further
, that
in
His anger He has
not punished
or
taken
much
notice
of
folly!
And, now,
because
there
is
not,
He
hath
appointed
His anger ,
And
He hath
not known
in
great
extremity.
So
Job opens
his mouth in
vain
and
multiplies
words
without knowledge. ”
And
Job `with'
vanity
doth
open
his mouth ,
Without knowledge words
he
multiplieth
.
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