1. Then Elihu responded and said,
2. “Hear my words, you wise men; give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
3. For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
4. Let us choose what is right for us; let us know among us what is good.
5. For Iyoḇ has said, ‘I am righteous, but Ěl has taken away my right.
6. Would I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable – without transgression.’
7. What man is like Iyoḇ, who drinks mocking like water,
8. who goes in company with the workers of wickedness, and walks with men of wrongness?
9. For he has said, ‘It does not profit a man that he takes delight in Elohim.’
10. Therefore, listen to me, you men of heart: far be it from Ěl to do wrong, and from the Almighty to commit unrighteousness.
11. For He repays man’s work to him, and makes man to find a reward according to his path.