Elihu Recalls God’s Justice 1 DBY Moreover Elihu answered and said, BSB BSB: And Elihu went on to say:
2 DBY Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? BSB BSB: “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
3 DBY For thou hast asked of what profit it is unto thee: what do I gain more than if I had sinned? BSB BSB: For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 DBY I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee. BSB BSB: I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 DBY Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou. BSB BSB: Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 DBY If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? BSB BSB: If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 DBY If thou be righteous, what givest thou to him? or what doth 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 DBY Thy wickedness may affect a man as thou art , and 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 DBY By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry; they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty: BSB BSB: Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10 DBY But none saith, Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night, BSB BSB: But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11 DBY Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowl of the heavens? BSB BSB: who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 DBY There they cry, and he answereth not, because of the pride of evil men. BSB BSB: There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13 DBY Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. BSB BSB: Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14 DBY Although thou sayest thou dost not see him, judgment is before him, therefore wait for him. 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 DBY But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not Job know his great arrogancy? BSB BSB: and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 DBY For Job hath opened his mouth in vanity, and made words abundant without knowledge. BSB BSB: So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
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