- After this, Eliu again spoke in this way
- Does it seem right to you in your thoughts, that you should say, “I am more just than God?
- For you said, “Having done what is right does not please you,” and, “How will it benefit you, if I sin?
- And so, I will respond to your words, and to your friends who are with you
- Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you
- If you sin, how will it hurt him? And if your iniquities are multiplied, what will you do against him
- Furthermore, if you act justly, what will you give him, or what will he receive from your hand
- Your impiety may hurt a man who is like you, though your justice may help the son of the man
- Because of the multitude of false accusers, they will cry out; and they will lament because of the strong arm of the tyrants
- Yet he has not said: “Where is God, who made me, who has given songs in the night
- who teaches us in addition to the beasts of the earth, and who educates us along with the birds of the air?
- There they will cry, and he will not heed them, because of the arrogance of the wicked
- Therefore, God does not hear in vain, and the Almighty will look into each and every case
- And so, when you say, “He does not examine,” be judged before him, but wait for him
- For, at the present time, he does not bring forth his fury, nor does he punish sin exceedingly
- Therefore, Job has opened his mouth in vain and has multiplied words without knowledge