Job 35

CHAPTER 35 Elihu Urges Job to Plead with The LORD

1 And undertaking, Elihu says, 2 What is this you esteem in equity? You, who are you, that you said, I am righteous before the lord? 3 For you shall say, How should I have committed sinning? 4 I shall give to you an answer, and to [²three ³friends ¹your]. 5 Look up into the heaven, and behold! Study the clouds, how high they are from you! 6 If you sinned, what will you do? And even if in many things you acted lawlessly, what are you able to do? 7 Since then you are righteous, what shall you give to him, or what [²from out of ³your hand ¹shall he take]? 8 To a man likened to you -- of your impiety; and to a son of man -- of your righteousness. 9 [²by ³a multitude ¹The ones being extorted] shall cry out; they shall yell because of the arm of many. 10 And one said not, Where is the God who made me, the one delegating [²watches ¹the nightly]; 11 the one separating me from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of heaven. 12 There they shall cry out, and in no way shall one listen, even because of the insolence of wicked men. 13 For things out of place [³does not want ⁴to behold ¹the ² lord], for he is the almighty. 14 He is an observer of the ones completing lawless deeds, and he will deliver me; and you plead before him! if you are able to praise him, as he is. 15 And now that he is not numbering his anger, and he knows not [²transgressions ¹exceeding], 16 even Job acting in folly opens his mouth; in ignorance [²words ¹he weighs down].