| Christian Standard Bible | King James Bible |
| 1Then Elihu continued, saying: | 1Elihu spake moreover, and said, |
| 2Do you think it is just when you say, "I am righteous before God"? | 2Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's? |
| 3For you ask, "What does it profit you, and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?" | 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 you and your friends with you. | 4I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee. |
| 5Look at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you. | 5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou. |
| 6If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him? | 6If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him? |
| 7If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand? | 7If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand? |
| 8Your wickedness affects a person like yourself, and your righteousness, a son of man. | 8Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man. |
| 9People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the power of the mighty. | 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 no one asks, "Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night, | 10But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; |
| 11who gives us more understanding than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?" | 11Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven? |
| 12There they cry out, but he does not answer, because of the pride of evil people. | 12There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men. |
| 13Indeed, God does not listen to empty cries, and the Almighty does not take note of it-- | 13Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it. |
| 14how much less when you complain that you do not see him, that your case is before him and you are waiting for him. | 14Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him. |
| 15But now, because God's anger does not punish and he does not pay attention to transgression, | 15But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity: |
| 16Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge. | 16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge. |
| The Christian Standard Bible. Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. | King James Bible, text courtesy of BibleProtector.com. |
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