37FOR HE ADDS TO SIN HIS TRANSGRESSION BETWEEN US HE CLAPS AND HE MULTIPLIES WORDS HIS TO <THE> GOD 37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
2¿ THIS DO YOU CONSIDER TO JUSTICE YOU HAVE SAID RIGHTEOUSNESS MY [IS] MORE THAN GOD 2“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’*NoteCloseOr ‘I am righteous before God.’
3FOR YOU SAY WHAT? WILL IT BE OF USE TO YOU WHAT? WILL I PROFIT FROM SIN MY 3For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
4I I WILL RESPOND TO YOU WORDS AND <OBJ.> FRIENDS YOUR WITH YOU 4I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
5LOOK AT [THE] HEAVENS AND SEE AND OBSERVE [THE] CLOUDS THEY ARE HIGH MORE THAN YOU 5Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
6IF YOU HAVE SINNED WHAT? DO YOU DO IN HIM AND THEY HAVE BEEN MANY TRANSGRESSIONS YOUR WHAT? DO YOU DO TO HIM 6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
7IF YOU HAVE BEEN RIGHTEOUS WHAT? DO YOU GIVE TO HIM OR WHAT? FROM HAND YOUR DOES HE RECEIVE 7If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
8[IS] FOR A PERSON LIKE YOURSELF WICKEDNESS YOUR AND [IS] FOR A CHILD OF HUMANKIND RIGHTEOUSNESS YOUR 8Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
9FROM A MULTITUDE OF OPPRESSION<S> PEOPLE CRY OUT THEY CRY FOR HELP FROM [THE] ARM OF GREAT [PEOPLE] 9Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
10AND NOT ANYONE HAS SAID WHERE? [IS] GOD MAKER<S> MY [WHO] GIVES SONGS IN THE NIGHT 10But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
11[WHO] TEACHES US MORE THAN [THE] ANIMALS OF [THE] EARTH AND MORE THAN [THE] BIRD[S] OF THE HEAVENS HE MAKES WISE US 11who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
12THERE THEY CRY OUT AND NOT HE ANSWERS <FROM> BECAUSE OF [THE] PRIDE OF WICKED [PEOPLE] 12There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
13SURELY EMPTINESS NOT HE HEARS GOD AND [THE] ALMIGHTY NOT HE OBSERVES IT 13Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
14INDEED? IF YOU WILL SAY NOT YOU OBSERVE HIM [THE] CASE [IS] <TO> BEFORE HIM SO YOU MAY WAIT FOR HIM 14How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
15AND NOW THAT NOT IT HAS PUNISHED ANGER HIS AND NOT HE KNOWS IN <THE> FOLLY EXCEEDINGLY 15and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
16AND JOB VANITY HE OPENS MOUTH HIS WITH NOT KNOWLEDGE WORDS HE MULTIPLIES 16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”