Job 35

35¹ Elihu continued and said: ² "Do you think this to be just? You say, "I am in the right before God.' ³ If you ask, "What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?' ⁴ I will answer you and your friends with you. ⁵ Look at the heavens and see; observe the clouds, which are higher than you. ⁶ If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him; or what does he receive from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness affects others like you, and your righteousness, other human beings.

⁹ "Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ But no one says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives strength in the night, ¹¹ who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?' ¹² There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evildoers. ¹³ Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴ How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! ¹⁵ And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not greatly heed transgression, ¹⁶ Job opens his mouth in empty talk, he multiplies words without knowledge."