AB - Job - 32

32:1  And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job, for Job was righteous before them.

32:2  Then Elihu the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the land of Uz, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

32:3  And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

32:4  But Elihu had waited to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he was.

32:5  And Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men, and he was angered in his wrath.

32:6  And Elihu the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and you are older, therefore I kept silent, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

32:7  And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

32:8  but there is a spirit in mortals, and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

32:9  The long-lived are not wise as such, neither do the aged know judgment.

32:10  Wherefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.

32:11  Give ear to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you have tried the matter with words:

32:12  I have paid close attention to you; and behold, not one of you convinced Job, or answered his words-

32:13  lest you should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.

32:14  And you have commissioned a man to speak such words.

32:15  They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.

32:16  I waited, (for I had not spoken) because they stood still, and they did not speak.

32:17  And Elihu continued, and said, I will again speak,

32:18  for I am full of words, for the spirit within me destroys me.

32:19  And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine, bound up and ready to burst; or as a brazier's laboring bellows.

32:20  I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.

32:21  For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.

32:22  For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.