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If I am wicked, woe to me! — but if righteous, I still don't dare raise my head, because I am so filled with shame, so soaked in my misery.

You will be confident, because there is hope; you will look around you and lie down secure;

because his appetite would not let him rest, in his greed he let nothing escape;

"Is he rebuking you because you fear him? Is this why he enters into judgment with you?

Isn't it because your wickedness is great? Aren't your iniquities endless?

when someone is brought down, you will say, ‘It was pride, because [God] saves the humble.'

"Today too my complaint is bitter; my hand is weighed down because of my groaning.

So these three men stopped trying to answer Iyov, because he remained convinced of his own righteousness.

His anger also blazed up against his three friends, because they had found no answer to Iyov but condemned him anyway.

Elihu had waited to speak to Iyov because they were older than he;

But must I wait just because they don't speak, just because they stand there, stuck for an answer?

If you have something to say, answer me; speak, because I want to show that you are right.

because they turned away from following him and gave no thought to any of his ways,

"I wish Iyov would be kept on trial forever, because he answers like wicked men.

They may cry out, but no one answers, because of evil men's pride.

But now, just because he doesn't get angry and punish, does it mean he doesn't know what arrogance is?

Be careful; turn away from wrongdoing; for because of this, you have been tested by affliction.

You know, of course, because you were born then; by now you must be very old!

because God has deprived it of wisdom and given it no share in understanding.

After Adonai had spoken these words to Iyov, Adonai said to Elifaz the Teimani, "My anger is blazing against you and your two friends, because, unlike my servant Iyov, you have not spoken rightly about me.