1. Then Elihu said:
2. “Listen to me, you wise men.Pay attention, you who have knowledge.
3. Job said, ‘The ear tests the words it hearsjust as the mouth distinguishes between foods.’
4. So let us discern for ourselves what is right;let us learn together what is good.
5. For Job also said, ‘I am innocent,but God has taken away my rights.
6. I am innocent, but they call me a liar.My suffering is incurable, though I have not sinned.’
7. “Tell me, has there ever been a man like Job,with his thirst for irreverent talk?
8. He chooses evil people as companions.He spends his time with wicked men.
9. He has even said, ‘Why waste timetrying to please God?’