Job 35 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

Then Elihu answered again:

Do you call this a fair reading of the case? You said, "I am in the right — more than God is."

Because you say, "What use is any of this to you? What do I get out of it that I would not get from failing?"

I am going to bring you back an answer — you, and your friends standing there with you.

Look up at the sky and see it. Watch the clouds, so far above you.

If you fail, what does that do to him? If your rebellions pile up, what does it cost him?

If you are in the right, what does he get out of it? What does he take out of your hand?

Your wrongdoing lands on a man like you. What is right in you lands on somebody's son.

Under a pile of oppression people scream. They shout for help against the arm of the powerful.

But nobody says, "Where is God who made me, the one who hands out songs in the night,

who teaches us more than the animals of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?"

There they scream, and he does not answer, because of how proud evil men are.

It is empty. God does not listen to it. The Almighty will not even look at it.

How much less when you say you cannot see him — that your case is lying right there in front of him and you are still waiting.

And now, because his anger has not called anyone in, because he takes so little notice of the mess people make —

Job opens his mouth on nothing but air. He piles up words without knowing what he is saying.