Elihu lit into Job again: “Does this kind of thing make any sense? First you say, ‘I’m perfectly innocent before God.’ And then you say, ‘It doesn’t make a bit of difference whether I’ve sinned or not.’

“Do you think this is according to justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

“Do you think it is right for you to claim, ‘I am righteous before God’?

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

“Do you think this is fair? You say, ‘God will show that I am right,’

Thinkest thou this to be thy right, Or sayest thou, My righteousness is more than God’s

“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.’

“Do you think this is right? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

“Do you think this is according to [your] justice? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

“Do you think this to be just? Do you say, ‘It is my right before God,’