1. Then Elihu answered and said:
2. “Hear my words, you wise men,and give ear to me, you who know;
3. for the ear tests wordsas the palate tastes food.
4. Let us choose what is right;let us know among ourselves what is good.
5. For Job has said, ‘I am in the right,and God has taken away my right;
6. in spite of my right I am counted a liar;my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’
7. What man is like Job,who drinks up scoffing like water,
8. who travels in company with evildoersand walks with wicked men?
9. For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothingthat he should take delight in God.’
10. “Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:far be it from God that he should do wickedness,and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.