But he replied, "You're talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?" In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

"Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

If I have sinned -- what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert what is right?

If he snatches away, who can turn him back? Who dares to say to him, 'What are you doing?'

It is higher than the heavens -- what can you do? It is deeper than Sheol -- what can you know?

What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you!

"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

What do you know that we don't know? What do you understand that we don't understand?

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

"I will explain to you; listen to me, and what I have seen, I will declare,

what wise men declare, hiding nothing, from the tradition of their ancestors,

Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

Will there be an end to your windy words? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

But you have said, 'What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness?

They were saying to God, 'Turn away from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'

I would know with what words he would answer me, and understand what he would say to me.

For what hope does the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

I will teach you about the power of God; What is on the Almighty's mind I will not conceal.

what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

Moreover, the strength of their hands -- what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

What then would be one's lot from God above, one's heritage from the Almighty on high?

then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: "I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.

It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

Therefore I say, 'Listen to me. I, even I, will explain what I know.'

I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

That person sings to others, saying: 'I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right; let us come to know among ourselves what is good.

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

"If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.'

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

But you say, 'What will it profit you,' and, 'What do I gain by not sinning?'

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

If you are righteous, what do you give to God, or what does he receive from your hand?

then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone --

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

In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has."

So the Lord restored what Job had lost after he prayed for his friends, and the Lord doubled all that had belonged to Job.