<p class="poetry">His memory perishes from the earth,p> <p class="poetry">he has no name in the land.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will never<n id="1" /> declare that you three<n id="2" /> are in the right;p> <p class="poetry">until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!p>

<p class="poetry">Far from where people live<n id="1" /> he sinks a shaft,p> <p class="poetry">in places travelers have long forgotten,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">far from other people he dangles and sways.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Sons of senseless and nameless people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they were driven out of the land with whips.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">If my footsteps have strayed from the way,p> <p class="poetry">if my heart has gone after my eyes,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or if anything<n id="2" /> has defiled my hands,p>

Now Elihu had waited before speaking<n id="1" /> to Job, because the others<n id="2" /> were older than he was.

<p class="poetry">Now I was paying you close attention,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">yet<n id="2" /> there was no one proving Job wrong,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">not one of you was answering his statements!p>

<p class="poetry">If there is an angel beside him,p> <p class="poetry">one mediator<n id="1" /> out of a thousand,p> <p class="poetry">to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;But now they mock me, those who are younger<n id="1" /> than I,p> <p class="poetry">whose fathers I disdained too much<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to put with my sheep dogs.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">you asked,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Who is this who darkens counselp> <p class="poetry">without knowledge?&#8217;p> <p class="poetry">But<n id="2" /> I have declared without understanding<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">things too wonderful for me to know.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">While this one was still speaking,<n id="1" /> another messenger arrived<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;The fire of God<n id="3" /> has fallen from heaven<n id="4" /> and has burned up the sheep and the servants &#8211; it has consumed them! And I &#8211; only I alone &#8211; escaped to tell you!&#8221;p>