| Berean Study Bible | English Standard Version |
| 1And Elihu went on to say: | 1And Elihu answered and said: |
| 2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’ | 2“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’ |
| 3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’ | 3that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’ |
| 4I will reply to you and to your friends as well. | 4I will answer you and your friends with you. |
| 5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. | 5Look at the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds, which are higher than you. |
| 6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him? | 6If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him? |
| 7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand? | 7If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand? |
| 8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man. | 8Your wickedness concerns a man like yourself, and your righteousness a son of man. |
| 9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty. | 9“Because of the multitude of oppressions people cry out; they call for help because of the arm of the mighty. |
| 10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night, | 10But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, |
| 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’ | 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’ |
| 12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. | 12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil men. |
| 13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it. | 13Surely God does not hear an empty cry, nor does the Almighty regard it. |
| 14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him, | 14How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him! |
| 15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly! | 15And now, because his anger does not punish, and he does not take much note of transgression, |
| 16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.” | 16Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge.” |
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