Job 32:1-16 ▼

1 So these three men ceassed to aunswere Iob, because he held him selfe a righteous man.

2 But Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite, of the kinred of Ram, was very sore displeased at Iob, because he called hym selfe iust before God.

3 And with Iobs three friendes he was angry also, because they had founde no reasonable aunswere, and yet condempned Iob.

4 Nowe taried Elihu, till they had ended their comunication with Iob: for why? they were elder then he.

5 So when Elihu sawe that these three men were not able to make Iob aunswere, he was miscontent.

6 Therfore Elihu the sonne of Barachel the Buzite aunswered, and sayde: Considering that I am young, and ye be men of age, I was afrayde, and durst not shewe foorth my mynde.

7 For I thought thus within my selfe: It becommeth old men to speake, and the aged to teache wysdome.

8 Euery man no doubt hath a mynde, but it is the inspiration of the almightie that geueth vnderstanding.

9 Great men are not alway wyse, neither doth euery aged man vnderstande the thing that is lawfull:

10 Therefore I say, heare me, and I wil shewe you also myne vnderstanding.

11 For when I had wayted till ye made an end of your talking, and hearde your wysdome, what argumentes ye made in your communication,

12 Yea when I had diligently pondred what ye sayde, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Iob, that directly could make aunswere vnto his wordes,

13 Lest ye should say: We haue found out wisdome, God shall cast hym downe, and no man.

14 He hath not spoken vnto me, and I wil not aunswere hym as ye haue done.

15 For they were so abashed, that they coulde not make aunswere, nor speake one worde.

16 When I had wayted (for they spake not, but stoode still and aunswered no more:)