¹Moreover Elihu answered,

¹Elihu nastavi svoju besjedu i reče:

²“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’

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

³That you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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

⁴I will answer you, and your companions with you.

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

⁵Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.

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

⁶If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

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

⁷If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

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

⁸Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a son of man.

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

⁹“By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

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

¹⁰But none says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,

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

¹¹who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

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

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

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

¹³Surely God will not hear an empty cry, neither will the Almighty regard it.

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

¹⁴How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for 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 he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance.

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

¹⁶Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”

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