Job 33:8-13

Elihu Rejects Job’s Plea of Innocence

33:8 “Indeed, you have said in my hearing

(I heard the sound of the words!):

33:9 ‘I am pure, without transgression;

I am clean and have no iniquity.

33:10 Yet God finds occasions with me;

he regards me as his enemy!

33:11 He puts my feet in shackles;

he watches closely all my paths.’

33:12 Now in this, you are not right – I answer you,

for God is greater than a human being.

33:13 Why do you contend against him,

that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Proverbs 17:20

17:20 The one who has a perverse heart does not find good,

and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.

Proverbs 17:1

17:1 Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness

than a house full of feasting with strife.

Proverbs 6:5

6:5 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare,

and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.