Job 35 Comparison: Catholic Public Domain vs KJV with Apocrypha

Job 35

¹After this, Eliu again spoke in this way:

²Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?”

³For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?”

⁴And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you.

⁵Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.

⁶If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him?

⁷Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand?

⁸Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man.

⁹Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants.

¹⁰Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night,

¹¹who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?”

¹²There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked.

¹³Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case.

¹⁴And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him.

¹⁵For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly.

¹⁶Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge.

Job 35

¹Elihu spake moreover, and said,

²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

⁴I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

⁸Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

¹⁰But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

¹²There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹⁴Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

¹⁵But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.