Surely I would wear it proudly on my shoulder, I would bind it on me like a crown;

Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job, because the others were older than he was.

It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!

Job has not directed his words to me, and so I will not reply to him with your arguments.

I will speak, so that I may find relief; I will open my lips, so that I may answer.

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

to turn back his life from the place of corruption, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come before him, so that he hears the cry of the needy.

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

“Do you think this to be just: when you say, ‘My right before God.’

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

“Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God’s behalf.

He does not take his eyes off the righteous; but with kings on the throne he seats the righteous and exalts them forever.

then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.

The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,