But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

But you even break off piety, and hinder meditation before God.

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

Have pity on me, my friends, have pity on me, for the hand of God has struck me.

Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up: “I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.