Elihu Recalls God’s Justice 1 Brenton And Elius resumed and said, BSB BSB: And Elihu went on to say:
2 Brenton What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord? BSB BSB: “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
4 Brenton I will answer thee, and thy three friends. BSB BSB: I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 Brenton Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee. BSB BSB: Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 Brenton If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do? and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform? BSB BSB: If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 Brenton And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand? BSB BSB: If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Brenton Thy ungodliness may affect a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man. BSB BSB: Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 Brenton They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many. BSB BSB: Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 Brenton But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches; BSB BSB: But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 Brenton who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky? BSB BSB: who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 Brenton There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men. BSB BSB: There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 Brenton For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One. BSB BSB: Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14 Brenton He beholds them that perform lawless deeds, and he will save me: and do thou plead before him, if thou canst praise him, as it is possible even now. BSB BSB: 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,
15 Brenton For he is not now regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass. BSB BSB: and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 Brenton Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words. BSB BSB: So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
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