1. Then Elihu said:
2. “Do you think this is fair?You say, ‘God will show that I am right,’
3. but you also ask, ‘What’s the use?I don’t gain anything by not sinning.’
4. “I will answer youand your friends who are with you.
5. Look up at the skyand see the clouds so high above you.
6. If you sin, it does nothing to God;even if your sins are many, they do nothing to him.
7. If you are good, you give nothing to God;he receives nothing from your hand.
8. Your evil ways only hurt others like yourself,and the good you do only helps other human beings.
9. “People cry out when they are in trouble;they beg for relief from powerful people.
10. But no one asks, ‘Where is God, my Maker,who gives us songs in the night,