1. Thus Elihu spoke up and said,
2. “Hear my words, you wise men, and listen to me, you who know,
3. for the ear tests words, and the palate tastes food.
4. Let us choose justice for ourselves; let us determine among ourselves what is good—
5. for Job has said, ‘I am righteous, but God has taken away my justice.
6. Should I lie concerning my justice? Though I am without transgression, my wound caused by an arrow is incurable.’
7. What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water?
8. And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.
9. Indeed, he says, ‘A man does not profit when he takes delight in God.’
10. “Therefore, listen to me, people who have sense: far be it from God that he should commit wickedness and that Shaddai should do wrong.
11. Indeed, he will repay according to a human being’s deeds, and according to a man’s way he will let it happen to him.
12. What’s more, God truly does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.
13. Who gave him charge over the earth? Or who laid on him the whole world?
14. If he should set his heart to it, and he should gather his spirit and his breath to himself,