1 ELIHU SPOKE MORE:
2 禄Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know.
3 禄For the ear tests words like the palate tastes food.
4 禄Let us choose what is right. Let us determine among ourselves what is good.
5 禄Job has said: 聭I am innocent, and God has taken away my right.
6 禄聭In spite of being right I am counted a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.聮
7 禄Who is there like Job, who drinks up scoffing like water?
8 禄Who goes in company with evildoers and walks with the wicked?
9 禄He has said: 聭It profits one nothing to take delight in God.聮
10 禄Hear me, you who have sense, far be it from God that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
11 禄According to their deeds he will repay them. According to their ways he will make it befall them.
12 禄Of a truth, God will not do wickedly, and the Almighty will not pervert justice.
13 禄Who gave God authority over the earth? Who has laid on him the entire world?
14 禄If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to himself his spirit and his breath,
15 禄All flesh would perish and man would return to dust.
16 禄But if you understand, hear this; Listen to the sound of my words.
17 禄Shall one who hates justice rule? And will you condemn the righteous Mighty One?
18 禄Should anyone even say to a king: You good-for-nothing scoundrel! Or to nobles, you wicked people!
19 禄The one who is righteous and mighty does not grant special favors to princes or prefer important people to poor people because his hands made them all.
20 禄They die suddenly in the middle of the night. People have seizures and pass away. Mighty people are taken away but not by human hands.
21 禄God's eyes are on a person's ways. He sees all his steps.
22 There is no darkness or deep shadow where troublemakers can hide.
23 禄He does not have to set a time for a person in order to bring him to divine judgment.
24 禄He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them and puts others in their places.
25 禄He knows what they do, so he overthrows them at night, and they are crushed.
26 禄In return for their evil, he strikes them in public.
27 禄This is because they turned away from following him. They did not consider any of his ways.
28 禄They forced the poor to cry out to him, and he hears the cry of those who suffer.
29 禄If God decided to do nothing at all, no one could criticize him. If he hid his face refused to assist, we would be helpless.
30 禄There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.
31 禄Job, have you confessed your sins to God and promised not to sin again?
32 禄Have you asked God to show you your faults, and have you agreed to stop doing evil?
33 禄Since you object to what God does, can you expect him to do what you want? The decision is yours, not mine. Tell us now what you think.
34 禄Any sensible person will agree; and the wise that hear me will say
35 that Job is speaking from ignorance and that nothing he says make sense.
36 禄Think through everything that Job says. You will see that he talks like an evil man.
37 禄To his sins he adds rebellion and in front of us all he mocks God.