1 - Moreover Elihu answered and said,
2 - Hear my words, ye wise men; And give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
3 - For the ear trieth words, As the palate tasteth food.
4 - Let us choose for us that which is right: Let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 - For Job hath said, I am righteous, And God hath taken away my right:
6 - Notwithstanding my right I am accounted a liar; My wound is incurable, though I amwithout transgression.
7 - What man is like Job, Who drinketh up scoffing like water,
8 - Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
9 - For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.
10 - Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 - For the work of a man will he render unto him, And cause every man to find according to his ways.
12 - Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 - Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
14 - If he set his heart upon himself, Ifhe gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15 - All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
16 - If nowthou hastunderstanding, hear this: Hearken to the voice of my words.
17 - Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous and mighty?—
18 - Himthat saith to a king, Thou art vile, Orto nobles, Ye arewicked;
19 - That respecteth not the persons of princes, Nor regardeth the rich more than the poor; For they all are the work of his hands.
20 - In a moment they die, even at midnight; The people are shaken and pass away, And the mighty are taken away without hand.
21 - For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.
22 - There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 - For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.
24 - He breaketh in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.
25 - Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26 - He striketh them as wicked men In the open sight of others;
27 - Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:
28 - So that they caused the cry of the poor to come unto him, And he heard the cry of the afflicted.
29 - When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether it be done unto a nation, or unto a man:
30 - That the godless man reign not, That there be none to ensnare the people.
31 - For hath any said unto God, I have bornechastisement, I will not offend any more:
32 - That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more?
33 - Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.
34 - Men of understanding will say unto me, Yea, every wise man that heareth me:
35 - Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.
36 - Would that Job were tried unto the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
37 - For he addeth rebellion unto his sin; He clappeth his hands among us, And multiplieth his words against God.
