In response, Elihu said:

"Do you think this [is] justice when you say, '{I am right} before God'?

For thou dost say, How can one profit by thee? How can I benefit, more than by my sin?

I will reply to thee in words, and to thy companions with thee.

If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

“Your wickedness affects only a man such as you,
And your righteousness affects only a son of man [but it cannot affect God, who is sovereign].

Because the hand of the cruel is hard on them, men are making sounds of grief; they are crying out for help because of the arm of the strong.

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Surely God will not hear an empty cry , Neither will the Almighty regard it.

Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

And Elihu went on to say,

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength and wisdom.

His eyes are ever on the upright, and he gives to the crushed their right;

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;

Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

He with punishing and nurturing of them, roundeth them in the ears, warneth them to leave off from their wickedness, and to amend.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

“But if they do not hear and obey, they will die by the sword [of God’s destructive judgments]
And they will die [in ignorance] without [true] knowledge.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

They die in youth, and their life is among the unclean.

He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.

Lest He move thee with a stroke, And the abundance of an atonement turn thee not aside.

Will thy cry avail, that thou be not in distress, Or all the forces of thy'strength?

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

Take heed -- do not turn unto iniquity, For on this thou hast fixed Rather than on affliction.

Behold, God doeth loftily in his power: Who is a teacher like unto him?

Who enjoined on him his way? and who ever said, Thou hast wrought perversity?

Remember to extol his work, which people have praised in song.

All men have looked on it, Man looketh attentively from afar.

For he draweth up the drops of water, Which distil in rain from his vapor,

Which clouds do drop, They distil on man abundantly.

"Furthermore, can anyone understand cloud patterns, or the thundering in his pavilion?

Behold, He spreads His light on it, and He covers the bottom of the sea.

For by them judgeth he the people; he giveth meat in abundance.

By two palms He hath covered the light, And layeth a charge over it in meeting,

After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

"God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things, and we cannot comprehend.

For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.

He puts an end to the work of every man, so that all may see his work.

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.

The clouds do their labour in getting moistness, the clouds pour down the rain.

And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.

Whether he cause it to come as a rod, or for his land, or in mercy.

Give ear to this, O Job, and keep quiet in your place; and take note of the wonders worked by God.

Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?

How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

Thou hast made an expanse with Him For the clouds -- strong as a hard mirror!

Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.

Should He be told that I want to speak?
Can a man speak when he is confused?

And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.

Yet out of the north He comes, shrouded in a golden glow;
awesome majesty surrounds Him.

Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

“Men therefore fear Him;
He does not regard nor respect any who are wise in heart [in their own understanding and conceit].”

When spake the LORD unto Job out of the storm, and said,

Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge?

Get ready to answer Me like a man;
when I question you, you will inform Me.

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Who determined its measures, if you know? Or who stretched the line on it?

On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone?

When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it,

When I cut out for it my boundary, and set bars and doors,

And say, 'Hitherto come thou, and add not, And a command is placed On the pride of thy billows.'

"Have you {ever in your life} commanded [the] morning? Have you made the dawn know its place,

To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

It is changed like the signet-clay; and all things stand forth as in a garment:

Light is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.

Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

"In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

Thou knowest, for, then, hadst thou been born! And, in number, thy days are many!

Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

which I hold in reserve for times of trouble,
for the day of warfare and battle?

Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

to make the grass grow in places where no body dwelleth, and in the wilderness where no man remaineth?

Whose womb brings forth the ice? Who gives birth to frost out of an empty sky,

When the waters lie hidden as in stone, and the face of the deep holdeth fast together.

Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.

Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

“They kneel down, they bring forth their young,
They cast out their labor pains.

Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.