And Elihu answered and said:
2Do you think this to be just, you that say, I am more just than God?
3For you say, What will it benefit you? What shall I profit more than if I had sinned?
4I will answer your words, and your friends with you.
5Observe the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, they are higher than you.
6If you sin, what do you do against Him? Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
7If you are righteous, what do you give to Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
8Your wickedness is for a man like yourself; and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
9From the host of oppressions, they cry out; they cry because of the arm of the multitude.
10But no one says, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11teaching us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
12There they cry, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers.
13Surely, God will not hear vanity, nor will the Almighty look upon it.
14How much less when you say you do not regard Him! Judgment is before Him, and you are waiting for Him.
15And now, because His anger has not visited, and He does not recognize great stupidity,
16even Job vainly opens his mouth; he multiplies words without knowledge.