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Also -- to-day [is] my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.

Pillars of the heavens do tremble, And they wonder because of His rebuke.

Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

For a dread unto me [is] calamity [from] God, And because of His excellency I am not able.

If I rejoice because great [is] my wealth, And because abundance hath my hand found,

Because I fear a great multitude, And the contempt of families doth affright me, Then I am silent, I go not out of the opening.

and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.

Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

There they cry, and He doth not answer, Because of the pride of evil doers.

And, now, because there is not, He hath appointed His anger, And He hath not known in great extremity.

Then He declareth to them their work, And their transgressions, Because they have become mighty,

And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Dost thou trust in him because great [is] his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

With trembling and rage he swalloweth the ground, And remaineth not stedfast Because of the sound of a trumpet.

And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, `Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.