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¹ And Elihu answers and says:² "Hear, O wise men, my words, || And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.³ For the ear tries words, || And the palate tastes to eat.⁴ Let us choose judgment for ourselves, || Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.⁵ For Job has said, I have been righteous, || And God has turned aside my right,⁶ Against my right do I lie? My arrow [is] mortal—without transgression.⁷ Who [is] a man like Job? He drinks scoffing like water,⁸ And he has traveled for company || With workers of iniquity, || So as to go with men of wickedness.⁹ For he has said, It does not profit a man || When he delights himself with God.

¹⁰ Therefore, O men of heart, listen to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, || And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness,¹¹ For He repays the work of man to him, || And according to the path of each He causes him to find.¹² Indeed, truly, God does not do wickedly, || And the Mighty does not pervert judgment.¹³ Who has inspected for Himself the earth? And who has placed all the habitable world?¹⁴ If He sets His heart on him, || [If] He gathers His Spirit and His breath to Himself,¹⁵ All flesh expires together, || And man returns to dust.

¹⁶ And if [there is] understanding, hear this, || Give ear to the voice of my words.¹⁷ Indeed, does one hating justice govern? Or do you condemn the Most Just?¹⁸ Who has said to a king, Worthless, || To princes, Wicked?¹⁹ That has not accepted the person of princes, || Nor has known the rich before the poor, || For all of them [are] a work of His hands.²⁰ [In] a moment they die, || And at midnight people shake, || And they pass away, || And they remove the mighty without hand.²¹ For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, || And He sees all his steps.²² There is no darkness nor death-shade, || For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;²³ For He does not permit man anymore, || To go to God in judgment,²⁴ He breaks the mighty—no searching! And He appoints others in their stead.²⁵ Therefore He knows their works, || And He has overturned by night, || And they are bruised.²⁶ As wicked He has struck them, || In the place of beholders.²⁷ Because that against right || They have turned aside from after Him, || And have considered none of His ways,²⁸ To cause to come to Him || The cry of the poor, || And He hears the cry of the afflicted.²⁹ And He gives rest, and who makes wrong? And hides the face, and who beholds 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 has any said to God: I have taken away, || I do not do corruptly,³² Besides [that which] I see, You show me, || If I have done iniquity—I do not add?³³ Does He repay by you, that you have refused—That you choose, and not I? And what you have known, speak.³⁴ Let men of heart say to me, || And a wise man is listening to me:³⁵ Job—he does not speak with knowledge, || And his words [are] not with wisdom.³⁶ My Father! Let Job be tried—to victory, || Because of answers for men of iniquity,³⁷ For he adds to his sin, || He vomits transgression among us, || And multiplies his sayings to God."