Therefore you are without excuse, O every man who  ¹judges, for in what you judge another you condemn yourself; for you who judge practice the same things.

But we know that the  ¹judgment of God is according to  ²truth upon those who practice such things.

And do you consider this, O man, who judge those who practice such things and do the same yourself, that you will escape the  ¹judgment of God?

Or do you despise the riches of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that God's kindness is leading you to repentance?

But, according to your hardness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,

Who will render to each according to his works:

 ¹To those who by endurance in good work seek glory and honor and incorruptibility, life eternal;

But to those who are selfishly contentious and disobedient to the  ¹truth and obey unrighteousness, wrath and fury.

Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man who commits evil, both of Jew first and of Greek;

But glory and honor and peace to everyone who works good, both to Jew first and to Greek.

For there is no respect of persons with God.

For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned  ¹under the law shall be judged by the law

(For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

For when Gentiles, who have no law, do  ¹by nature the things of the law, these, though they have no law, are a law to themselves,

Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their  ¹conscience bearing witness with it and their reasonings, one with the other, accusing or even excusing them.)

In the day when God judges the secrets of men according to my gospel through Jesus Christ.

Then Elihu continued and said,

Do you consider this to be just?
Do you say, My righteousness is more than God's,

So that you say, What advantage is there to  ¹me,
What do I profit, more than if I had sinned?

I will respond to you with words,
And to your companions with you.

Look unto heaven and see;
And behold the skies: They are higher than you.

If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to Him?

If you are righteous, what can you give to Him,
Or what does He receive from your hand?

Your wickedness affects a man like you,
And your righteousness, a son of man.

Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;
They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

But no one says, Where is God my Maker,
Who gives songs in the night,

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of heaven?

There they cry, but He does not answer,
Because of the pride of evil men.

Surely God does not hear an empty cry,
And the Almighty does not regard it.

How much less when you say that you do not behold Him,
That the cause is before Him and you are waiting on Him!

But now, because He has not visited in His anger
Nor regarded such great arrogance,

Job opens his mouth in vanity;
He multiplies words without knowledge.

And Elihu added this and said,

Bear with me a little, and I will show you;
For there is more to say for God.

I will bring my knowledge from afar
And will ascribe righteousness to my Maker.

For truly my words are not false;
One perfect in  ¹knowledge is with you.

Indeed, God is mighty and does not despise;
He is mighty in strength of understanding.

He does not preserve the wicked man alive,
But gives justice to the afflicted.

He does not withdraw His eyes from the righteous;
And with kings on the throne,
He sets them forever, and they are exalted.

And if they are bound in fetters,
If they are caught in the cords of affliction,

He shows them their work
And their transgressions, that they have acted arrogantly.

He also opens their ear to instruction
And commands that they return from iniquity.

If they hear and serve Him,
They will spend their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasantness.

But if they do not hear, they will pass away by the sword
And die without knowledge.

But those who are profane in heart lay up anger;
They do not cry for help when He binds them.

They die in youth,
And their life ends among the most defiled.

He rescues the afflicted by their affliction
And opens their ear through oppression.

Indeed He allures you from the jaws of distress
Into a spacious place, where there is no constraint;
And what is upon your table is full of fatness.

But you are filled with the judgment of the wicked;
Judgment and litigation have taken hold of you.

Beware lest wrath allures you into scoffing,
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

Will your cry keep you from being in distress,
Or all the forces of your strength?

Do not long for the night,
When people are taken from their place.

Take heed; do not turn toward iniquity;
For you have chosen this rather than affliction.

Indeed, God is exalted in His power:
Who is a teacher like Him?

Who has appointed His way for Him?
And who says, You have done wrong?

Remember to magnify His work,
Of which men sing.

All mankind has gazed on it;
Man beholds it from afar.

Indeed, God is great, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years we also cannot search out.

For He draws up the drops of water
Which distill into rain from His mist,

Which the skies pour down
And drop upon man abundantly.

Can they indeed understand the spreading of the clouds,
The thunderings of His pavilion?

Indeed, He scatters His lightning around Him
And covers the roots of the sea.

For by these He judges the peoples;
He gives food in abundance.

He fills His hands with lightning
And commands it to strike the mark.

Its noise tells of Him;
The cattle as well tell concerning Him who is coming.

At this, too, my heart trembles
And leaps from its place.

Hear attentively the noise of His voice
And the sound that goes forth from His mouth.

He sends it forth under the whole heaven,
And His lightning unto the ends of the earth.

After it a voice roars;
He thunders with the voice of His majesty
And does not withhold  ¹the lightning
When His voice is heard.

God thunders wondrously with His voice;
He does great things that we cannot comprehend.

For He says to the snow, Fall on the earth,
And to the rain shower and His mighty showers of rain.

He seals the hand of every man,
That all men may know His doing.

Then the beast enters its lair
And remains in its dens.

Out of its chamber comes the whirlwind,
And from scattering winds, cold.

From the breath of God ice is yielded,
And the expanse of waters is frozen.

He also loads the thick clouds with moisture;
He scatters His lightning clouds;

And they turn about by His guidance,
That they may accomplish
All that He has commanded them
Upon the surface of the inhabited earth;

Whether for scourge or for His land
Or for lovingkindness' sake, He causes it to happen.

Give ear to this, Job;
Stand still and consider the wondrous acts of God.

Do you know how God lays His charge upon them
And causes His lightning clouds to shine?

Do you know about the balancing of the thick clouds,
The wondrous acts of Him who is perfect in knowledge?

You whose garments heat up
When, because of the south wind, the earth is still,

Can you spread out the skies with Him,
The skies which are as hard as a molten mirror?

Teach us what to say to Him;
We cannot arrange our words because of the darkness.

Should it be said to Him, I will speak?
Or should a man say that he will be swallowed up?

But now men do not look at the light,
Which is brilliant in the skies
When the wind has passed and cleared them.

Out of the north comes golden splendor;
Upon God is the awesomeness of majesty.

The Almighty — we cannot find Him out;
He is excellent in power,
And justice and the abundance of righteousness He will not damage.

Therefore men fear Him;
He does not look upon any who are wise of heart.