Job 35 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Elius resumed and said, And Elihu answered and said: Then Elihu said:
2 What is this that thou thinkest to be according to right? who art thou that thou hast said, I am righteous before the Lord? “Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’
3 I will answer thee, and thy three friends. that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?’
4 Look up to the sky and see; and consider the clouds, how high they are above thee. I will answer you and your friends with you. “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you.
5 If thou hast sinned, what wilt thou do? Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
6 and if too thou hast transgressed much, what canst thou perform? If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him?
7 And suppose thou art righteous, what wilt thou give him? or what shall he receive of thy hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand?
8 Thy ungodliness may affect a man who is like to thee; or thy righteousness a son of man. Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.
9 They that are oppressed of a multitude will be ready to cry out; they will call for help because of the arm of many. “Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. “People cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the powerful.
10 But none said, Where is God that made me, who appoints the night-watches; But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky? who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’ who teaches us more than he teaches the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds in the sky?’
12 There they shall cry, and none shall hearken, even because of the insolence of wicked men. There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. He does not answer when people cry out because of the arrogance of the wicked.
13 For the Lord desires not to look on error, for he is the Almighty One. Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.
14 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. How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! How much less, then, will he listen when you say that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you must wait for him,
15 For he is not now regarding his wrath, nor has he noticed severely any trespass. And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, and further, that his anger never punishes and he does not take the least notice of wickedness.
16 Yet Job vainly opens his mouth, in ignorance he multiplies words. Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” So Job opens his mouth with empty talk; without knowledge he multiplies words.”
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