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¹ And Elihu answered and said:² O wise men, hear my words; and you who know, listen to me;³ for the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.⁴ Let us choose for ourselves what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.⁵ For Job has said, I am righteous; also, God has taken away my right;⁶ should I lie against my right? My wound is incurable, yet I am without rebellion.⁷ What man is like Job, who drinks up derision like water;⁸ who goes in company with those who work iniquity, and walks with wicked men?⁹ For he has said, It is no benefit for a man when he is accepted with God.

¹⁰ So, O man of heart, listen to me; far be it from God to do wickedness; and the Almighty, to do evilly.¹¹ For He repays man's work to him; and according to a man's way, He causes him to find.¹² Yea, surely God will not do evilly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.¹³ Who has given the earth as in deposit with Him? Or who has laid the whole world?¹⁴ If He sets His heart on him, if He gathers his Spirit and his breath to Himself,¹⁵ all flesh shall perish together, and man shall return to dust.

¹⁶ But if you have understanding, hear this; listen to the sound of my words:¹⁷ Shall one who hates justice restrain it ? Or will you condemn a righteous, mighty one;¹⁸ who says to a king, O worthless one; to nobles, O evil one?¹⁹ How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor; for all of them are the work of His hands.²⁰ In a moment they die, and a people are shaken at midnight; yea, they pass away, and the mighty will be taken without a hand.²¹ For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees all his steps.²² There is no darkness nor shadow of death, to hide there those who work iniquity.²³ For He does not still impose on man to go before God in judgment.²⁴ He will break mighty men in pieces without inquiry, and make others stand in their place.²⁵ So He knows their works; and He overturns in the night, so that they are crushed.²⁶ He strikes them for evil deeds in the place of the spectators,²⁷ for so they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways so as ²⁸ to cause the cry of the poor to come to Him. For He hears the cry of the afflicted.²⁹ And He gives rest; who then can condemn? And when He hides His face, who then can see Him? Even it may be against a nation and a man together,³⁰ from the reigning of ungodly men, from being snares for the people.

³¹ For has any said to God, I have taken away; I will not pervert?³² Besides what I see, You teach me; if I have done iniquity, I will not do it again.³³ Must He repay you because you rejected it ? For you must choose, and not I; therefore, speak what you know.³⁴ Men of heart will say to me, and a wise man who hears me will say ,³⁵ Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words are not with insight.³⁶ Would that Job may be tried to the end, because his answers are like men of iniquity.³⁷ For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.