Job 35 — BBE

35Verse 1And Elihu made answer and said,^{Verse 2}Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,^{Verse 3}What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?^{Verse 4}I will make answer to you and to your friends:^{Verse 5}Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.^{Verse 6}If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?^{Verse 7}If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?^{Verse 8}Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.^{Verse 9}Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.^{Verse 10}But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;^{Verse 11}Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?^{Verse 12}There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.^{Verse 13}But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;^{Verse 14}How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.^{Verse 15}And now ... ;^{Verse 16}And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.