His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

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

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

If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

you asked, ‘Who is this who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ But I have declared without understanding things too wonderful for me to know.

While this one was still speaking, another messenger arrived and said, “The fire of God has fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants – it has consumed them! And I – only I alone – escaped to tell you!”