I chose their way and sat as chief, and I lived like a king among his troops, like one who comforts mourners.

“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.

I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.

And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: “I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words.

For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me.

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

Let us choose what is right; let us know among ourselves what is good.

For Job has said, ‘I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;

in spite of my right I am counted a liar; my wound is incurable, though I am without transgression.’

that you ask, ‘What advantage have I? How am I better off than if I had sinned?’

They die in youth, and their life ends among the cult prostitutes.

“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

And in all the land there were no women so beautiful as Job's daughters. And their father gave them an inheritance among their brothers.