1 Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness Moreover Elihu answered and said:
2 “Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?
3 For Job 21:15; 34:9 you say, ‘What advantage will it be to You? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’
4 “I will answer you, And Job 34:8 your companions with you.
5 Gen. 15:5; (Job 22:12; Ps. 8:3) Look to the heavens and see; And behold the clouds— They are higher than you.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish Job 7:20; (Prov. 8:36; Jer. 7:19) against Him? Or, if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?
7 Job 22:2; Ps. 16:2; Prov. 9:12; (Luke 17:10); Rom. 11:35 If you are righteous, what do you give Him? Or what does He receive from your hand?
8 Your wickedness affects a man such as you, And your righteousness a son of man.
9 “Because Job 34:28 of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry out for help because of the arm of the mighty.
10 But no one says, Is. 51:13 ‘Where is God my Maker, Job 8:21; Ps. 42:8; 77:6; 149:5; Acts 16:25 Who gives songs in the night,
11 Who Job 36:22; Ps. 94:12; (Is. 48:17); Jer. 32:33; (1 Cor. 2:13) teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?’
12 Prov. 1:28 There they cry out, but He does not answer, Because of the pride of evil men.
13 Job 27:9; (Prov. 15:29; Is. 1:15); Jer. 11:11; (Mic. 3:4) Surely God will not listen to empty talk, Nor will the Almighty regard it.
14 Job 9:11 Although you say you do not see Him, Yet justice is before Him, and (Ps. 37:5, 6) you must wait for Him.
15 And now, because He has not Ps. 89:32 punished in His anger, Nor taken much notice of folly,
16 Job 34:35; 38:2 Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain; He multiplies words without knowledge.”