1. Then Elihu responded and said,
2. “Hear my words, you wise men; give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
3. For the ear tries words as the palate tastes food.
4. Let us choose what is right for us; let us know among us what is good.
5. For Iyoḇ has said, ‘I am righteous, but Ěl has taken away my right.
6. Would I lie concerning my right? My wound is incurable – without transgression.’
7. What man is like Iyoḇ, who drinks mocking like water,
8. who goes in company with the workers of wickedness, and walks with men of wrongness?