Then Elihu continued and said,

Do you consider this to be just, Do you say, My righteousness is more than God's,

That you say, What advantage is there to me, What do I profit, more than if I had sinned?

I will respond to you with words, And to your companions with you.

Look unto heaven and see; And behold the skies: They are higher than you.

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

If you are righteous, what can you give to Him, Or what does He receive from your hand?

Your wickedness affects a man like you, And your righteousness, a son of man.

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

But no one says, Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night,

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?

There they cry, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God does not hear an empty cry, And the Almighty does not regard it.

How much less when you say that you do not behold Him, That the cause is before Him and you are waiting on Him!

But now, because He has not visited in His anger Nor regarded such great arrogance,

Job opens his mouth in vanity; He multiplies words without knowledge.