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,