Job 35

וַיַּ֥עַן אֱלִיה֗וּ וַיֹּאמַֽר׃

And Elihu went on to say:

Elihu spake moreover, and said,

הֲ֭זֹאת חָשַׁ֣בְתָּ לְמִשְׁפָּ֑ט אָ֝מַ֗רְתָּ צִדְקִ֥י מֵאֵֽל׃

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’

Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר מַה־יִּסְכָּן־לָ֑ךְ מָֽה־אֹ֝עִ֗יל מֵֽחַטָּאתִֽי׃

For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

אֲ֭נִי אֲשִֽׁיבְךָ֣ מִלִּ֑ין וְֽאֶת־רֵעֶ֥יךָ עִמָּֽךְ׃

I will reply to you and to your friends as well.

I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

הַבֵּ֣ט שָׁמַ֣יִם וּרְאֵ֑ה וְשׁ֥וּר שְׁ֝חָקִ֗ים גָּבְה֥וּ מִמֶּֽךָּ׃

Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

אִם־חָ֭טָאתָ מַה־תִּפְעָל־בּ֑וֹ וְרַבּ֥וּ פְ֝שָׁעֶ֗יךָ מַה־תַּעֲשֶׂה־לּֽוֹ׃

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

אִם־צָ֭דַקְתָּ מַה־תִּתֶּן־ל֑וֹ א֥וֹ מַה־מִיָּדְךָ֥ יִקָּֽח׃

If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

לְאִישׁ־כָּמ֥וֹךָ רִשְׁעֶ֑ךָ וּלְבֶן־אָ֝דָ֗ם צִדְקָתֶֽךָ׃

Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

מֵ֭רֹב עֲשׁוּקִ֣ים יַזְעִ֑יקוּ יְשַׁוְּע֖וּ מִזְּר֣וֹעַ רַבִּֽים׃

Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

וְֽלֹא־אָמַ֗ר אַ֭יֵּה אֱל֣וֹהַּ עֹשָׂ֑י נֹתֵ֖ן זְמִר֣וֹת בַּלָּֽיְלָה׃

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

מַ֭לְּפֵנוּ מִבַּהֲמ֣וֹת אָ֑רֶץ וּמֵע֖וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֣יִם יְחַכְּמֵֽנוּ׃

who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’

Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

שָׁ֣ם יִ֭צְעֲקוּ וְלֹ֣א יַעֲנֶ֑ה מִ֝פְּנֵ֗י גְּא֣וֹן רָעִֽים׃

There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.

There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

אַךְ־שָׁ֭וְא לֹא־יִשְׁמַ֥ע ׀ אֵ֑ל וְ֝שַׁדַּ֗י לֹ֣א יְשׁוּרֶֽנָּה׃

Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.

Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

אַ֣ף כִּֽי־תֹ֭אמַר לֹ֣א תְשׁוּרֶ֑נּוּ דִּ֥ין לְ֝פָנָ֗יו וּתְח֥וֹלֵֽל לֽוֹ׃

How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

וְעַתָּ֗ה כִּי־אַ֭יִן פָּקַ֣ד אַפּ֑וֹ וְלֹֽא־יָדַ֖ע בַּפַּ֣שׁ מְאֹֽד׃

and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

וְ֭אִיּוֹב הֶ֣בֶל יִפְצֶה־פִּ֑יהוּ בִּבְלִי־דַ֝֗עַת מִלִּ֥ין יַכְבִּֽר׃

So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.