1. Then Elihu answered, saying:
2. “Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
3. For you ask, ‘What will it profit you?’ and ‘What do I gain by not sinning?’
4. I will answer you, and your friends with you.
5. Look up at the heavens and see; consider the clouds so high above you.
6. If you sin, how does it affect Him? If your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?
7. If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8. Your wickedness is for a man like yourself, and your righteousness for a son of man.
9. “Because of a multitude of oppressions, they cry out; they cry for help because of the power of the mighty.
10. But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
11. who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, who makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’