✧Elihu 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.