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[1]And Elihu answereth and saith:
[2]Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
[3]For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
[4]Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
[5]For Job hath said, `I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
[6]Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow -- without transgression.'
[7]Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
[8]And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
[9]For he hath said, `It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
[10]Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:
[11]For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
[12]Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
[13]Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
[14]If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
[15]Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
[16]And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
[17]Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
[18]Who hath said to a king -- `Worthless,' Unto princes -- `Wicked?'
[19]That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are] all of them.
[20][In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
[21]For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
[22]There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
[23]For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
[24]He breaketh the mighty -- no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
[25]Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
[26]As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
[27]Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
[28]To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
[29]And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, [It is] the same.
[30]From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
[31]For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
[32]Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done -- I do not add?'
[33]By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
[34]Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
[35]Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.
[36]My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
[37]For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.
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