But no stranger had to spend the night outside, for I opened my doors to the traveler –

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

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

She is harsh with her young, as if they were not hers; she is unconcerned about the uselessness of her labor.

He has cut out channels through the rocks; his eyes have spotted every precious thing.

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God’s sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”

And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!

Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

“Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

Would he contend with me with great power? No, he would only pay attention to me.

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