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"He puts his hand on the flint; He overturns the mountains at the base.

"He hews out channels through the rocks, And his eye sees anything precious.

And Job again took up his discourse and said,

When His lamp shone over my head, And by His light I walked through darkness;

"I broke the jaws of the wicked And snatched the prey from his teeth.

"Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off the bridle before me.

"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

If his loins have not thanked me, And if he has not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep,

"For calamity from God is a terror to me, And because of His majesty I can do nothing.

"No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin By asking for his life in a curse.

"Have the men of my tent not said, 'Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat'?

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men his anger burned.

"I even paid close attention to you; Indeed, there was no one who refuted Job, Not one of you who answered his words.

"For he has not arranged his words against me, Nor will I reply to him with your arguments.

'Behold, He invents pretexts against me; He counts me as His enemy.

"Why do you complain against Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?

That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;