1. Then Elihu answered and said:
2. Hear my discourse, you that are wise;you that have knowledge, listen to me!
3. For the ear tests words,as the palate tastes food.
4. Let us choose what is right;let us determine among ourselves what is good.
5. For Job has said, “I am innocent,but God has taken away what is my right.
6. I declare the judgment on me to be a lie;my arrow-wound is incurable, sinless though I am.”
7. What man is like Job?He drinks in blasphemies like water,
8. Keeps company with evildoersand goes along with the wicked,