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[1]And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.
[2]Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.
[3]And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.
[4]But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he.
[5]And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath.
[6]And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder, wherefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.
[7]And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:
[8]but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.
[9]The long-lived are not wise as such; neither do the aged know judgment.
[10]Wherefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.
[11]Hearken to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until ye shall have tried the matter with words:
[12]and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,
[13]lest ye should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.
[14]And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.
[15]They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.
[16]I waited, (for I had not spoken,)because they stood still, they answered not.
[17]And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak,
[18]for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me.
[19]And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows.
[20]I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
[21]For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.
[22]For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.
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