1 AGAIN Elihu spoke, and said,

2 Do you think you were justified in saying, I have been found blameless by God?

3 If you have said it, what advantage will it be to you? And what should I gain if I should condemn you?

4 I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.

5 Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.

6 If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?

7 If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

8 Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself.

9 Because of the multitude of oppressions men howl; and many cry out because of iniquity.

10 And none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives counsel in the night,

11 Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of the air?

12 They cry, but he does not answer them,

13 Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it.

14 Although you have said, I will not praise him, plead before him and supplicate before him.

15 For now he does not punish with his anger; and he does not harm any soul.

16 Therefore Job has spoken in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge.