Job 32:1-9 ▼

1 And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.

2 Then Elius the son of Barachiel, the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram, of the country of Ausis, was angered: and he was very angry with Job, because he justified himself before the Lord.

3 And he was also very angry with his three friends, because they were not able to return answers to Job, yet set him down for an ungodly man.

4 But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he.

5 And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath.

6 And Elius the Buzite the son of Barachiel answered and said, I am younger in age, and ye are elder, wherefore I kept silence, fearing to declare to you my own knowledge.

7 And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years men know wisdom:

8 but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.

9 The long-lived are not wise as such ; neither do the aged know judgment.