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¹ Furthermore Elihu responded, and said: - ² Hear, ye wise men, my words, and, ye who know, give ear unto me;³ For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.⁴ What is right, let us choose for ourselves, Let us know, among ourselves, what is good;⁵ For Job hath said - I am righteous, But, GOD, hath turned away my right;⁶ Concerning mine own right, shall I tell a falsehood? Incurable is my disease - not for any transgression.⁷ What man is like Job? He drinketh in scoffing like water;⁸ And is on the way to keep company, with the workers of iniquity, and to walk with lawless men.⁹ For he hath said, It profiteth not a man, when, his good pleasure, is with God.

¹⁰ Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me, - Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!¹¹ For, what any son of earth doeth, he repayeth him, and, according to every man's course, he causeth him to find.¹² Nay, verily, GOD, will not condemn unjustly, - nor, the Almighty, pervert justice.¹³ Who set him in charge of the earth? Or who appointed him the whole world?¹⁴ If he should set against him his heart, His spirit and his inspiration, unto himself he should withdraw.¹⁵ All flesh together, would cease to breathe, and, the earth-born, unto dust, would return.

¹⁶ If then thou hast understanding, hear this, Give thou ear to the teaching of my words: - ¹⁷ Shall, the very hater of right, control? Or, the just - the mighty one, wilt thou condemn?¹⁸ Doth one say to a king, Abandoned one! Or, Lawless one! unto nobles?¹⁹ For he hath shewn no respect of persons unto princes, neither hath he recognised the rich rather than the poor? For, the work of his hands, are they all.²⁰ In a moment, they die, even in the middle of the night, - A people are convulsed when they pass away, A mighty one is removed, without hand;²¹ For, his eyes, are on the ways of a man, and, all his footsteps, he beholdeth, - ²² No darkness, and no death-shade, where the workers of iniquity may hide.²³ For, unto no man, doth he appoint a repetition, - in going unto GOD in judgment;²⁴ He shattereth mighty ones unsearchably, and setteth up others in their stead:²⁵ Therefore, he observeth their works, - and overturneth them in a night, and they are crushed;²⁶ In the place of lawless men, hath he chastised them, in presence of beholders.²⁷ Forasmuch, as they turned from following him, and, none of his ways, did they teach;²⁸ Causing to reach him the outcry of the poor, Yea, the outcry of the oppressed, he heareth.²⁹ When, he, giveth quiet, who then shall condemn? And, when he hideth his face, who then shall sing of him? whether unto a nation or unto mankind altogether,³⁰ That impious men may not reign, nor be ensnarers of the people.

³¹ For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;³² What I see not, do, thou, shew me, If, perverseness, I have wrought, I will do it no more?³³ According to thy mind, must he requite it, that thou hast refused? For, thou, must choose, and not, I, What then thou knowest, speak!³⁴ The men of mind, will say to me, yea any wise man hearkening unto me: - ³⁵ Job, without knowledge, doth speak, and, his words, are not with discretion.³⁶ Would that Job might be tested to the uttermost, for replying with the men of iniquity:³⁷ For he addeth - unto his sin - rebellion, In our midst, he clappeth his hands, and multiplieth his sayings against GOD.