When these days of feasting were through, Job would call all of his family to his own house and purify them, rising up early in the morning to offer burnt sacrifices for each one. Job: God, forgive my children for any secret sins or grudges they have against You deep in their hearts. Job did this again and again.

You will arrive hearty and undiminished at the grave after a long life, like a pile of grain harvested at its peak ripeness.

His wise heart is vast; His strength immeasurable. Who has ever challenged Him and remained safe and at peace?

Yet I know what is in You, what Your heart has always hidden.

What has stripped you of your reason, carried away your heart? Why do your eyes flash with anger—

Even now my days have passed me by; My plans lie broken at my feet; the secret wishes of my heart grow cold.

On the contrary, I’ll assert my innocence and never let it go; my heart will not mock my past or my future.

The dying spoke their blessings over me, and the widows sang their joyful songs honoring what I did.

If my steps have veered off God’s prescribed path or if my heart has followed any of the evil my eyes have seen or if my hands are soiled,

If my heart has been seduced by another woman or if I have waited by a friend’s door for a liaison with his wife,

If such sights secretly seduced my heart and made my hand throw kisses to the false gods of sun and moon,

If I have covered my sin as people do or attempted to hide my wrongdoing in the recesses of my heart

My words emerge from a heart of integrity; my lips express their knowledge with sincerity.

Elihu: So, you men whose hearts have embraced wisdom, listen to me: far be it from God to commit evil acts; and from the Highest One to engage in wrongdoing!

Look! God has great strength, but He does not detest human beings; He is mighty indeed, and His heart swells with understanding.

Elihu: At this, my heart quivers, and it nearly leaps out of my chest.

This is why mortals fear Him; He doesn’t see the wise of heart.

Its heart is rock hard, as hard as a lower millstone, impervious to grinding.