¹ Elihu spoke moreover, and said, ² Do you think this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's? ³ For you said, What advantage will it be to you? and, What profit will I have, if I be cleansed from my sin? ⁴ I will answer you, and your companions with you. ⁵ Look to the heavens, and see; and see the clouds which are higher than you. ⁶ If you sins, what doest you against him? or if your transgressions be multiplied, what doest you to him? ⁷ If you be righteous, what gives you him? or what receives he of your hand? ⁸ your wickedness may hurt a man as you are and your righteousness may profit the son of man. ⁹ By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason 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 fowls of heaven? ¹² There they cry, but none gives answer, because of the pride of evil men. ¹³ Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. ¹⁴ Although you say you will not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him. ¹⁵ But now, because it is not so, he has visited in his anger; yet he know it not in great extremity ¹⁶ Therefore does Job open his mouth in vain he multiplies words without knowledge.