^35:1 Moreover Elihu answered and said, ^35:2 What is this you think in judgment? Who are you that you said, I am righteousness before the Lord? ^35:3 That you said, What advantage will it be to you? And, What profit shall I have more than if I had sinned?^35:4 I will answer you and your companions with you.

    ^35:5 Look to the heavens and see. And behold the skies, which are higher than you. ^35:6 If you have sinned, what do you effect against him? And if your transgressions be multiplied, what do you to him? ^35:7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive of your hand?

    ^35:8 Your wickedness is a man as you are and your righteousness is a son of man. ^35:9 Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

    ^35:10 But none says, Where is God my maker who gives songs in the night, ^35:11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens? ^35:12 They cry there, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men.

    ^35:13 Surely God will not hear an empty cry, nor will the Almighty regard it. ^35:14 How much less when you say that you do not behold him. The case is before him and you wait for him!

    ^35:15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, nor does he regard transgression well, ^35:16 so Job opens his mouth in vanity. He multiplies words without knowledge.