Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

The likes of it is not on earth, a creature without fear.

“Can you discover the essence of God? Can you find out the perfection of the Almighty?

Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

It hurls itself against him without pity as he flees headlong from its power.

But when Elihu saw that the three men had no further reply, he became very angry.

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

Elihu answered:

But as soon as she springs up, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

It lives on a rock and spends the night there, on a rocky crag and a fortress.

But he replied, “You’re talking like one of the godless women would do! Should we receive what is good from God, and not also receive what is evil?” In all this Job did not sin by what he said.

So the Lord blessed the second part of Job’s life more than the first. He had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.

He sucks the poison of serpents; the fangs of a viper kill him.

Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

Then he gives a revelation to people, and terrifies them with warnings,