Job 35.9
English standard version

Appel à rechercher Dieu

¹ And Elihu answered and said:
² Do you think this to be just?
Do you say, It is my right before God,
³ that 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;
and behold 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 concerns a man like yourself,
and your righteousness a son of man.
⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out;
they call for help because of the arm of the mighty.
¹⁰ But none says, Where is God my Maker,
who gives songs in the night,
¹¹ who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
¹² There they cry out, but he does not answer,
because of the pride of evil men.
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 take much note of transgression,
¹⁶ Job opens his mouth in empty talk;
he multiplies words without knowledge.