1 And Elihu went on and said:
2 "Do you consider this just, when you say, 'I am more in the right than God'?
3 For you ask, 'What good does it do you? How am I better off than if I had sinned?'
4 I will give you an answer, you and your friends along with you.
5 Lift your eyes to the heavens and look; observe the clouds, set high above you.
6 If you sin, what do you do to him? If your transgressions multiply, how do you affect him?
7 If you are righteous, what are you giving him? What does he take from your hand?
8 Your wickedness concerns a man like you, and your righteousness a son of man.
9 Under the weight of oppression men cry out; they shout for help under the arm of the powerful.
10 But none of them says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the land and gives us more wisdom than the birds of the heavens?'
12 There they cry, but he gives no answer, because of the pride of the wicked.
13 Surely God does not listen to emptiness, and the Almighty pays it no regard.
14 How much less when you say you do not see him, that your case is before him and you are waiting for him!
15 And now, since his anger has not punished, and he does not much heed arrogance,
16 Job opens his mouth in vain and heaps up words without knowledge."