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Job 32

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

And his three friends also ceased any longer to answer Job: for Job was righteous before them.
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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.
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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.
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But Elius had forborne to give an answer to Job, because they were older than he.
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And Elius saw that there was no answer in the mouth of the three men; and he was angered in his wrath.
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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.
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And I said, It is not time that speaks, though in many years [men] know wisdom:
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but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.
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The long-lived are not wise [as such]; neither do the aged know judgment.
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Wherefore I said, Hear me, and I will tell you what I know.
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Hearken to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until ye shall have tried [the matter] with words:
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and I shall understand as far as you; and, behold, there was no one of you that answered Job his words in argument,
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lest ye should say, We have found that we have added wisdom to the Lord.
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And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.
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They were afraid, they answered no longer; they gave up their speaking.
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I waited, (for I had not spoken,) because they stood still, they answered not.
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And Elius continued, and said, I will again speak,
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for I am full of words, for the spirit of my belly destroys me.
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And my belly is as a skin of sweet wine bound up [and] ready to burst; or as a brazier's labouring bellows.
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I will speak, that I may open my lips and relieve myself.
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For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.
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For I know not how to respect persons: and if otherwise, even the moths would eat me.
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