1. Then Job’s three friends gave up trying to answer him, because he was so sure that he was innocent.
2. But there was a young man there named Elihu son of Barakel. He was a descendant of a man named Buz. Elihu was from the family of Ram. He became very angry because Job kept saying he was innocent—that he was right and God was wrong.
3. Elihu was also angry with Job’s three friends because they could not answer him, and yet they still considered him guilty of doing wrong.
4. Elihu was the youngest one there, so he had waited until everyone finished talking.