1And Elihu answered and said:2“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ (Job 32:2)3that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ (Job 34:9)4I will answer you and your friends with you. (Job 34:8; Job 34:36)5Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. (Job 22:12)6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? (Pr 8:36; Jer 7:19)7If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? (Job 22:2; Job 41:11; Pr 9:12; Lu 17:10; Ro 11:35)8Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. (Job 25:6)9“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.[1] (Ex 2:23; Job 22:8; Job 34:28; Am 3:9)10But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, (De 32:6; Job 4:17; Ps 42:8; Ps 77:6; Ps 149:5; Ac 16:25)11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’ (Job 36:22; Ps 94:12; Isa 28:26)12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. (Job 27:9)13Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.14How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! (Job 9:11; Job 13:15; Job 23:8)15And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression,[2] (Nu 16:29; Ps 89:32)16Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” (Job 34:35; Job 34:37; Job 36:12; Job 38:2; Job 42:3)