Elihu spake moreover, and said,
2“你以为这话有理， 说：‘我在神面前是公义的。’Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
3你说：‘这对你有什么益处？ 我不犯罪有什么好处呢？’For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4至于我，我要用言语回答你 和跟你一起的朋友。I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.
5你要向天观看， 瞻望那高于你的穹苍。Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
6你若犯罪，能使神受何害呢？ 你的过犯加增，能使神受何损呢？If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
7你若是公义，能加增他什么呢？ 他从你手里还接受什么呢？If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?
8你的罪恶只影响像你这类的人； 你的公义也只影响世人。Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.
9“人因多受欺压就哀求， 因强权者的膀臂而求救。By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
10但无人说：‘造我的神在哪里？ 他使人夜间歌唱，But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;
11教导我们多过地上的走兽， 使我们比空中的飞鸟更聪明。’Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
12因为恶人骄傲， 他们在那里呼求，他却不回答。There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13虚妄的呼求，神必不垂听； 全能者必不留意。Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.
14何况你说，你不得见他。 案件就在他面前，你等候他吧。Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
15但如今因他未曾发怒降罚， 也一点都不理会狂傲，But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
16所以约伯开口说虚妄的话， 多多发表无知识的言语。”Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.