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Job 35
Elihu fastens on a specific complaint of Job's: that being righteous brings no more advantage than sinning would. He answers by pointing upward — "Look to the skies" (v.5) — to set the scale right. God is so far above that human sin neither wounds him nor human goodness enriches him; the gain or harm lands on fellow humans. So why does God seem silent? Because, Elihu says, people cry out from oppression but no one asks for God himself.
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Moreover Elihu answered,
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“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
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that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
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I will answer you, and your companions with you.
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Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
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If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
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If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
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Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.
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“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
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who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
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There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.
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Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.
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How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
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But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
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therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
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Y PROCEDIENDO Eliú en su razonamiento, dijo:
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¿Piensas ser conforme á derecho esto que dijiste: Más justo soy yo que Dios?
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Porque dijiste: ¿Qué ventaja sacarás tú de ello? ¿ó qué provecho tendré de mi pecado?
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Yo te responderé razones, y á tus compañeros contigo.
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Mira á los cielos, y ve, y considera que las nubes son más altas que tú.
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Si pecares, ¿qué habrás hecho contra él? y si tus rebeliones se multiplicaren, ¿qué le harás tú?
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Si fueres justo, ¿qué le darás á él? ¿ó qué recibirá de tu mano?
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Al hombre como tú dañará tu impiedad, y al hijo del hombre aprovechará tu justicia.
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A causa de la multitud de las violencias clamarán, y se lamentarán por el poderío de los grandes.
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Y ninguno dice: ¿Dónde está Dios mi Hacedor, que da canciones en la noche,
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Que nos enseña más que á las bestias de la tierra, y nos hace sabios más que las aves del cielo?
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Allí clamarán, y él no oirá, por la soberbia de los malos.
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Ciertamente Dios no oirá la vanidad, ni la mirará el Omnipotente.
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Aunque más digas, No lo mirará; haz juicio delante de él, y en él espera.
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Mas ahora, porque en su ira no visita, ni conoce con rigor, por eso Job abrió su boca vanamente, y multiplica palabras sin sabiduría.
An empty cry versus a true one
The pivot is v.10: sufferers wail under the mighty's arm, yet none says, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night?" Elihu reads the unanswered cry not as God's indifference but as a cry that never truly sought him — "an empty cry" God will not regard.
He applies it straight to Job's case (v.14): saying you cannot see God, while your cause sits before him and you merely wait, is the kind of "empty talk" that, in Elihu's verdict, multiplies words without knowledge.
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