Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

Which are turbid because of ice
And into which the snow melts.

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

“Then you would trust, because there is hope;
And you would look around and rest securely.

Because he has stretched out his hand against God
And conducts himself arrogantly against the Almighty.

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond,
Even because of my inward agitation.

“Because he knew no quiet within him,
He does not retain anything he desires.

“Is it because of your reverence that He reproves you,
That He enters into judgment against you?

“His survivors will be buried because of the plague,
And their widows will not be able to weep.

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

“For calamity from God is a terror to me,
And because of His majesty I can do nothing.

If I have gloated because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had secured so much;

Because I feared the great multitude,
And the contempt of families terrified me,
And kept silent and did not go out of doors?

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.

“Shall I wait, because they do not speak,
Because they stop and no longer answer?

Because they turned aside from following Him,
And had no regard for any of His ways;

“Shall He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it?
For you must choose, and not I;
Therefore declare what you know.

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,
Because he answers like wicked men.

“Because of the multitude of oppressions they cry out;
They cry for help because of the arm of the mighty.

“There they cry out, but He does not answer
Because of the pride of evil men.

“And now, because He has not visited in His anger,
Nor has He acknowledged transgression well,

You whose garments are hot,
When the land is still because of the south wind?

“Teach us what we shall say to Him;
We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

“Will you trust him because his strength is great
And leave your labor to him?

Because God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.

“When he raises himself up, the mighty fear;
Because of the crashing they are bewildered.

It came about after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, because you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”