Job 32:6-22 - The Reason For Elihu's Discourse

⁶ Then Elihu the son of Barakel the Buzite {spoke up} and said, "{I am young}, but you are old; therefore I feared and became afraid of explaining my knowledge to you. ⁷ I thought, 'Let days speak, and let many years teach wisdom.' ⁸ "Truly, it [is] a spirit in a human being, and the breath of Shaddai teaches them. ⁹ [It is] not {the aged} [who] are wise, or [it is not] [the] elders [who] understand justice. ¹⁰ Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my knowledge myself.' ¹¹ "Look, I waited for your words; I listened for your insight, until you searched out {what to say}. ¹² And I directed my attention to you; and, look, there is no [one] for Job [who] refuted, answering his words among you. ¹³ So do not say, 'We have found wisdom; let God refute him, not a man.' ¹⁴ But he did not direct [his] words to me, and I will not answer him with your words.

¹⁵ "They are dismayed; they no longer answer; {they have nothing to say}. ¹⁶ And I have waited because they do not speak, because they stand [there] [and] no longer answer. ¹⁷ I myself will answer my share also; I myself will declare my knowledge also, ¹⁸ for I am full of words; {the spirit within me} urges me. ¹⁹ "Look, my internal organs [are] like unopened wine, like new wineskins it is [ready] to burst open. ²⁰ Let me speak {that I may find relief}; let me open my lips, and let me answer. ²¹ {Please let me not show partiality to anyone}, and let me not show flattery to human beings, ²² for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.