איוב לה

Elihu said in reply:

Do you think it just
To say, “I am right against God”?

If you ask how it benefits you,
“What have I gained from not sinning?”

I shall give you a reply,
You, along with your friends.

Behold the heavens and see;
Look at the skies high above you.

If you sin, what do you do to [God]?
If your transgressions are many,
How do you affect [God]?

If you are righteous,
What do you offer;
What does [God] receive from your hand?

Your wickedness affects parties like yourself;
Your righteousness, other people.

Because of contention the oppressed cry out;
They shout because of the power of the great.

But none says, “Where is my God, my Maker,
Who gives strength in the night;

Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth,
Makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”

Then they cry out, but they are not answered
Because of the arrogance of evildoers.

Surely it is false that God does not listen,
That Shaddai does not take note of it.

Though you say, “You do not take note of it,”
The case is before [God];
So you must wait.

But since now it does not seem so,
He vents his anger;
He does not realize that it may be long drawn out.

Hence Job mouths empty words,
And piles up words without knowledge.