So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.

How long wilt thou speak these things? And how long'shall the words of thy mouth be like a mighty wind?

Yet these things thou didst hide in thy heart; I know that this is with thee:

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

Who knoweth not in all these, That the hand of Jehovah hath wrought this,

These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

They make oil within the walls of these men; They tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

These are of them that rebel against the light; They know not the ways thereof, Nor abide in the paths thereof.

Lo, these are but the outskirts of his ways: And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

Lo, all these things doth God work, Twice, yea thrice, with a man,

For by these he judgeth the peoples; He giveth food in abundance.

And it was so, that, after Jehovah had spoken these words unto Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.