Elihu Recalls God’s Justice

1Elihu spake moreouer and saide:

2Thinkest thou it right that thou sayest, I am more righteous then God?

3For thou sayest: what aduauntage wyll it be vnto thee, and what profite shall I haue of my sinne?

4Therefore wyll I geue aunswere vnto thee, aud to thy companions with thee.

5Loke vnto the heauen and beholde it, consider the cloudes which are hyer then thou.

6If thou hast sinned, what hast thou done against him? If thyne offences be many, what hast thou done vnto him?

7If thou be righteous, what geuest thou him? or what wyll he receaue of thyne hande?

8Thy wickednesse may hurt a man as thou art, and thy righteousnesse may profite the sonne of man.

9They which are oppressed crye out vpon the multitude, yea they crye out for the power of the mightie:

10But none sayth, Where is God that made me? and that geueth vs occasion to praise him in the night?

11Which teacheth vs more the the beastes of the earth, and geueth vs more wysdome then the foules of heauen.

12If any such complaine, no man geueth aunswere, and that because of the wickednesse of proude tirauntes.

13For God wyll not heare vanitie, neither wyll the almightie regarde it.

14Although thou sayest to God thou wylt not regarde it: yet iudgement is before him, trust thou in him.

15But now because his anger hath not visited, neither called men to accompt with great extremitie:

16Therefore doth Iob open his mouth but in vaine, & he maketh many wordes without knowledge.