¹ Then Elihu said: ² “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am in the right, not God.` <sup>3</sup> Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me, and what do I gain by not sinning?` ⁴ “I would like to reply to you and to your friends with you. ⁵ Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you. ⁶ If you sin, how does that affect him? If your sins are many, what does that do to him? ⁷ If you are righteous, what do you give to him, or what does he receive from your hand? ⁸ Your wickedness only affects humans like yourself, and your righteousness only other people.