1Moreover Elihu answered, 2"Do you think this to be your right, 3That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? 4I will answer you, 5Look to the heavens, and see. 6If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? 7If you are righteous, what do you give him? 8Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, 9"By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. 10But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, 11who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, 12There they cry, but none gives answer, 13Surely God will not hear an empty cry, 14How much less when you say you do not see him. 15But now, because he has not visited in his anger, 16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk,