[1] And Elihu went on to say:
[2] “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
[3] For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
[4] I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
[5] Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
[6] If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
[7] If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
[8] Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
[9] Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
[10] But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
[11] who teaches us more than the beasts 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 evil men.
[13] Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
[14] How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
[15] and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
[16] So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”