1. Elihu spoke moreover, and said,
2. Think you this to be right, that you said, My righteousness is more than God's?
3. For you said, What advantage will it be unto you? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?
4. I will answer you, and your companions with you.
5. Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than you.
6. If you sin, what do you accomplish against him? or if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do unto him?
7. If you are righteous, what give you to him? or what receives he of your hand?
8. Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are; and your righteousness may profit the son of man.
9. Because of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out because of the arm of the mighty.
10. But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;
11. Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the fowls of heaven?