¹Elihu spake moreover, and said,

¹Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

²Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?

²"Zar ti misliš da pravo svoje braniš, da pravednost pred Bogom dokazuješ,

³For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

³kada mu kažeš: 'Što ti je to važno, i ako griješim, što ti činim time?'

⁴I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

⁴Na sve to ja ću odgovorit' tebi i prijateljima tvojim ujedno.

⁵Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

⁵Po nebu se obazri i promatraj! Gledaj oblake: od tebe su viši!

⁶If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

⁶Ako griješiš, što si mu uradio, prijestupom svojim što si mu zadao?

⁷If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

⁷Ako si prav, što si dodao njemu i što iz ruke tvoje on dobiva?

⁸Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

⁸Opakost tvoja tebi slične pogađa i pravda tvoja čovjeku koristi.

⁹By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

⁹Ali kad ispod teškog stenju jarma, kad vapiju na nasilje moćnika,

¹⁰But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

¹⁰nitko ne kaže: 'Gdje je Bog, moj tvorac, koji noć pjesmom veselom ispunja,

¹¹Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

¹¹umnijim nas od zvijeri zemskih čini i mudrijima od ptica nebeskih?'

¹²There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

¹²Tad vapiju, al' on ne odgovara poradi oholosti zlikovaca.

¹³Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

¹³Ali kako je isprazno tvrditi da Bog njihove ne čuje vapaje, da pogled na njih ne svraća Svesilni!

¹⁴Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

¹⁴A kamoli tek kada ti govoriš: 'On ne vidi mene, parnica moja pred njime stoji, a ja na nj još čekam.'

¹⁵But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

¹⁵Ili: 'Njegova srdžba ne kažnjava, nimalo on za prijestupe ne mari.'

¹⁶Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

¹⁶Isprazno tada otvara Job usta i besjede gomila nerazumne."