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Job 35

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 And Elihu made answer and said,

2 Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

3 What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

4 I will make answer to you and to your friends:

5 Let your eyes be turned to the heavens, and lifted up to see the skies; they are higher than you.

6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

7 If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?

8 Your evil-doing may have an effect on a man like yourself, or your righteousness on a son of man.

9 Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;

11 Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

12 There they are crying out because of the pride of the evil-doers, but he gives them no answer.

13 But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

14 How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

15 And now ... ;

16 And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

Orthodox Jewish Bible OJB

1 5 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

2 Thinkest thou this to be mishpat (right, just), that thou saidst, Tzidki meEl (I am cleared, in the right, justified before G-d)?

3 Ki (yet) thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned [see 9:22]?

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

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

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against Him? Or if thy peysha’im be multiplied, what doest thou unto Him?

7 If thou be tzaddik (righteous), what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thine yad?

8 Thy resha (wickedness) may hurt an ish as thou art; and thy tzedek may profit the ben adam.

9 They cry out under a load of oppression; they plead for relief from the zero’a of the rabbim.

10 But none saith, Where is Eloah Osai (G-d my Maker), Who giveth zemirot balailah (songs in the night);

11 Who teacheth us more than the behamot eretz, and maketh us wiser than the oph HaShomayim?

12 There they cry out, but none giveth answer, because of the ga’on (pride, arrogance) of ra’im (wicked men).

13 Surely El will not hear shav (vanity), neither will Shaddai regard it.

14 Although thou sayest thou cannot see Him, yet Din (the court case) is before Him; therefore trust thou, waiting for Him,

15 though ye say His anger does not pakad (visit, punish) anything and that He does not regard wickedness much;

16 Therefore doth Iyov open his mouth hevel (in vain); he multiplieth words without da’as.