1. After proclaiming these things, Eliu now had this to say:
2. May the wise hear my words, and may the educated listen to me.
3. For the ear examines words, and the mouth discerns foods by the taste.
4. Let us choose judgment for ourselves, and let us consider among ourselves what is best.
5. For Job has said: "I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
6. For, within my judgment, there is a lie: my vehement barbs are without any sin."
7. What man is there that is like Job, who drinks up derision as if it were water,
8. who accompanies those who work iniquity, and who walks with impious men?
9. For he has said, "Man will not please God, even if he should travel with him."
10. Therefore, prudent men, hear me: impiety is far from God, and iniquity is far from the Almighty.
11. For he will restore to man his works, and according to the ways of each, he will repay them.
12. For truly, God will not condemn in vain, nor will the Almighty repudiate judgment.