1. Then Elihu answered and said:
2. Do you think it right to say,“I am in the right, not God”?
3. When you ask what it profits you,“What advantage do I have from not sinning?”
4. I have words for a reply to youand your friends as well.
5. Look up to the skies and see;behold the heavens high above you.
6. If you sin, what do you do to God?Even if your offenses are many, how do you affect him?
7. If you are righteous, what do you give him,or what does he receive from your hand?
8. Your wickedness affects only someone like yourself,and your justice, only a fellow human being.
9. In great oppression people cry out;they call for help because of the power of the great,