1. Elihu spoke again and said:
2. “Do you think this is right,that you say, ‘My righteousness is before God’?
3. For you said, ‘What advantage will it be to me?What profit will I have if I am cleansed from my sin?’
4. “I will answer you,and your companions with you.
5. Look unto the heavens and see,and behold the clouds that are higher than you.
6. If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him?Or if your transgressions are multiplied, what does it do to Him?
7. If you are righteous, what does it give Him?Or what does He receive from your hand?
8. Your wickedness may hurt a man like you,and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
9. “Because of the many oppressions they cry out;they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
10. But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker,who gives songs in the night,