1. Then Elihu continued, saying:
2. Hear my words, you wise men,and listen to me, you knowledgeable ones.
3. Doesn’t the ear test wordsas the palate tastes food?
4. Let us judge for ourselves what is right;let us decide together what is good.
5. For Job has declared, “I am righteous,yet God has deprived me of justice.
6. Would I lie about my case? My wound is incurable,though I am without transgression.”
7. What man is like Job?He drinks derision like water.
8. He keeps company with evildoersand walks with wicked men.
9. For he has said, “A man gains nothingwhen he becomes God’s friend.”
10. Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding.It is impossible for God to do wrong,and for the Almighty to act unjustly.