Elihu Recalls God’s Justice 1 WBS Elihu spoke moreover, and said, BSB BSB: And Elihu went on to say:
2 WBS 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 WBS For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? and , What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? BSB BSB: For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4 WBS I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. BSB BSB: I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5 WBS Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. BSB BSB: Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6 WBS If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him? BSB BSB: If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7 WBS If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand? BSB BSB: If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8 WBS Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art : and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. BSB BSB: Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9 WBS By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to 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 WBS 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 WBS Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? BSB BSB: who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12 WBS There they cry, but none giveth answer, 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 WBS 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 WBS Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in 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 WBS But now, because it is not so , he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: BSB BSB: and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16 WBS Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. BSB BSB: So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
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