| 1. | And Eli'hu said: |
| 2. | "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, `It is my right before God,' |
| 3. | that you ask, `What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' |
| 4. | I will answer you and your friends with you. |
| 5. | Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. |
| 6. | If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? |
| 7. | If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand? |
| 8. | Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. |
| 9. | "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
| 10. | But none says, `Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, |
| 11. | who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?' |
| 12. | There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. |
| 13. | Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. |
| 14. | How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! |
| 15. | And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression, |
| 16. | Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge." |
