Elihu Rebukes Job

• and hear[fn] all my words.
• 2 my tongue in my mouth speaks.
• 3 declare my heart’s uprightness, and my lips sincerely speak[fn]
• 4  and the breath of Shaddai gives life to me.
• 5  Present your argument[fn] take your stand.
• 6 [fn] I myself was also formed from clay.
• 7  and my hand will not be heavy upon you.
• 8  and I have heard the sound of your words:[fn]
• 9 am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me.
• 10  he reckons me as his enemy;
• 11  he watches all my paths.’
• 12 in this you are not right—I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.
• 13  that he will not answer all a person’s words?
• 14 way, even[fn] in two,[fn] yet someone does not perceive it.
• 15 the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,
• 16 the ear of men, and[fn]
• 17 from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride.
• 18 the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.
• 19  even[fn] with the strife of his bones continually,
• 20 [fn] his life loathes bread, and his inner self[fn] loathes[fn]
• 21  and his bones, which are invisible, are bared.
• 22 [fn] draws near to the pit and his life to the killers.
• 23 [fn] to declare to a human being his uprightness
• 24 [fn] he is gracious to him, and he says, ‘Deliver him from descending into the pit;
• I have found a ransom.’
• 25 his youth; he returns to the days of his youthful strength.
• 26  and he sees his face with a shout of joy,
• and he repays to the human being his righteousness.
• 27  ‘I have sinned and have perverted what is right,
• and it was not paid back to me.
• 28  so[fn][fn]
• 29 things twice, three times[fn] with a person
• 30 the pit[fn]
• 31  be silent, and I will speak.
• 32 [fn][fn] speak, for I desire[fn]
• 33  be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”