Elihu Justifies His Intervention

Job 32:6-14

So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know.

I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.

But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.

It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; I too will declare what I know.’

Indeed, I waited while you spoke; I listened to your reasoning; as you searched for words,

I paid you full attention. But no one proved Job wrong; not one of you rebutted his arguments.

So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’

But Job has not directed his words against me, and I will not answer him with your arguments.