'Afflictions' in the Bible

“My soul refuses to touch them;Such things are like loathsome food to me [sickening and repugnant].

“If you say, ‘How shall we [continue to] persecute him?’And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find [since we claim the root of these afflictions is found in him]?’

Elihu’s anger burned against Job’s three friends because they had found no answer [and were unable to determine Job’s error], and yet they had condemned Job and declared him to be in the wrong [and responsible for his own afflictions].

‘Job ought to be tried to the limitBecause he answers like wicked men!

And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

He'll deliver the afflicted through their afflictions and open their ears when they are oppressed."