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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,<sup>6</sup> Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow -- without transgression.'<sup>7</sup> Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,<sup>8</sup> And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.<sup>9</sup> 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.