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In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help;

A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, - How then could I gaze upon a virgin?

Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?

Surely that had been a shameful thing! and that an iniquity for the judges!

If I saw one perishing for lack of clothing, or that the needy had no covering;

For, a dread unto me, was calamity from GOD, and, from his majesty, I could not escape.

That too, had been a judicial iniquity, For I should have been false to GOD, above.

Neither did I suffer my palate to sin, by asking, with a curse, for his life:

If the men of my household have not said, Oh for some of his flesh - we cannot get filled,

Outside, the sojourner lodged not for the night, My doors - to the wayfarer, I threw open.

But, Elihu, had waited for Job with words, because the others were older than he.

So then Elihu, son of Barachel, the Buzite, responded and said: - Young, am I, whereas, ye, are aged, For this cause, I faltered, and feared - to shew my knowledge unto you:

Lo! I waited for your words, I kept giving ear for your reasons, until ye should search out what to say;

Yea, unto you, gave I diligent heed, - But lo! there was, for Job, nothing to convince, nor could you of you answer his speeches.

For I am full of discourse, The spirit in my bosom, presseth me on.

Lo! in this, thou hast not been right - let me answer thee, For, GOD, is greater than, man.

Wherefore, against him, hast thou contended? For, with none of his reasons, will he respond.

For, in one way, GOD may speak, - and, in a second way, one may not heed it: -

If there is anything to say, reply to me, Speak, for I desire to justify thee;

For, the ear, trieth words, as, the palate, tasteth in eating.