1 Elihu continued to speak ⌞to Job and his friends⌟,
2 “Listen to my words, you wise men.
3 The ear tests words
4 Let’s decide for ourselves what is right
5 because Job has said,
6 I’m considered a liar in spite of my rights.
7 What person is like Job,
8 who travels with troublemakers
9 He says, ‘It doesn’t do any good to try to please God.’
10 “You people who have understanding, listen to me.
11 God will repay humanity for what it has done
12 Certainly, God will never do anything evil,
13 Who put him in charge of the earth?
14 If he thought only of himself
15 all living beings would die together,
16 “If you understand, listen to this.
17 Should anyone who hates justice be allowed to govern?
18 Should anyone ⌞even⌟ say to a king,
19 The one who is righteous and mighty
20 They die suddenly in the middle of the night.
21 God’s eyes are on a person’s ways.
22 There’s no darkness or deep shadow
23 He doesn’t have to set a time for a person
24 He breaks mighty people into pieces without examining them
25 He knows what they do,
26 In return for their evil, he strikes them in public,
27 because they turned away from following him
28 They forced the poor to cry out to him,
29 If he keeps quiet, who can condemn him?
30 ⌞He does this⌟ so that godless people cannot rule
31 “But suppose such a person says to God, ‘I am guilty,
32 Teach me what I cannot see.
33 Should God reward you on your own terms since you have rejected his?
34 “People of understanding, the wise people
35 ‘Job speaks without knowledge.
36 “My Father, let Job be thoroughly tested
37 He adds disobedience to his sin.