[1]AGAIN Elihu spoke, and said,[2]Do you think you were justified in saying, I have been found blameless by God?[3]If you have said it, what advantage will it be to you? And what should I gain if I should condemn you?[4]I will answer you with words, you and your friends with you.[5]Look to the heavens, and observe the clouds which are higher than you.[6]If you sin, what difference does it make to him? And if your iniquities be multiplied, what does it matter to him?[7]If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?[8]Your wickedness is to yourself; and your righteousness is to yourself[9]Because of the multitude of oppressions men howl; and many cry out because of iniquity.[10]And none says, Where is God my Maker, who gives counsel in the night,[11]Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of the air?[12]They cry, but he does not answer them,[13]Because God does not hear the empty pride of evildoers, nor does he praise it[14]Although you have said, I will not praise him, plead before him and supplicate before him.[15]For now he does not punish with his anger; and he does not harm any soul.[16]Therefore Job has spoken in vain; he multiplies words without knowledge