1Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2Thinkest thou this right, that thou hast said, I am more righteous than God?
3For thou hast said, What profiteth it thee, and what availeth it me, to purge me from my sin?
4Therefore will I answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5Look unto the heaven, and see and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him, yea, when thy sins be many, what doest thou unto him?
7If thou be righteous, what givest thou unto him? or what receiveth he at thine hand?
8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art: and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9They cause many that are oppressed, to cry, which cry out for the violence of the mighty.
10But none saith, Where is God that made me, which giveth songs in the night?
11Which teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and giveth us more wisdom than the fowls of the heaven.
12Then they cry because of the violence of the wicked, but he answereth not.
13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet judgment is before him: trust thou in him.
15But now because his anger hath not visited, nor called to count the evil with great extremity,
16Therefore Job openeth his mouth in vain, and multiplieth words without knowledge.