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JOB 32

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Elihu Rebukes Job’s Three Friends
  32:1 So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God. 3 He burned with anger also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, although they had declared Job to be in the wrong. 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were older than he. 5 And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, he burned with anger.
    
6 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said:
“I am young in years,
and you are aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
to declare my opinion to you.
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I said, ‘Let days speak,
and many years teach wisdom.’
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But it is the spirit in man,
the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
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It is not the old who are wise,
nor the aged who understand what is right.
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Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me;
let me also declare my opinion.’

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“Behold, I waited for your words,
I listened for your wise sayings,
while you searched out what to say.
12
I gave you my attention,
and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job
or who answered his words.
13
Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom;
God may vanquish him, not a man.’
14
He has not directed his words against me,
and I will not answer him with your speeches.

15
“They are dismayed; they answer no more;
they have not a word to say.
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And shall I wait, because they do not speak,
because they stand there, and answer no more?
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I also will answer with my share;
I also will declare my opinion.
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For I am full of words;
the spirit within me constrains me.
19
Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins ready to burst.
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I must speak, that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer.
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I will not show partiality to any man
or use flattery toward any person.
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For I do not know how to flatter,
else my Maker would soon take me away.

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