Will your long-winded speeches never end?(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(B)

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26 Do you mean to correct what I say,
    and treat my desperate words as wind?(A)

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“Would a wise person answer with empty notions
    or fill their belly with the hot east wind?(A)

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and soundness of speech that cannot be condemned, so that those who oppose you may be ashamed because they have nothing bad to say about us.(A)

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11 They must be silenced, because they are disrupting whole households(A) by teaching things they ought not to teach—and that for the sake of dishonest gain.

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46 No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.(A)

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He was also angry with the three friends,(A) because they had found no way to refute Job,(B) and yet had condemned him.[a](C) Now Elihu had waited before speaking to Job because they were older than he.(D) But when he saw that the three men had nothing more to say, his anger was aroused.

So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said:

“I am young in years,
    and you are old;(E)
that is why I was fearful,
    not daring to tell you what I know.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:3 Masoretic Text; an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition Job, and so had condemned God

I hear a rebuke(A) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

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“How long will you say such things?(A)
    Your words are a blustering wind.(B)

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