6. So Elihu, son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said:I am young and you are very old;therefore I held back and was afraidto declare to you my knowledge.
7. I thought, days should speak,and many years teach wisdom!
8. But there is a spirit in human beings,the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding.
9. It is not those of many days who are wise,nor the aged who understand the right.
10. Therefore I say, listen to me;I also will declare my knowledge!
11. Behold, I have waited for your words,have given ear to your arguments,as you searched out what to say.
12. Yes, I followed you attentively:And look, none of you has convicted Job,not one could refute his statements.
13. So do not say, “We have met wisdom;God can vanquish him but no mortal!”
14. For had he addressed his words to me,I would not then have answered him with your words.
15. They are dismayed, they make no more reply;words fail them.
16. Must I wait? Now that they speak no more,and have ceased to make reply,