³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

²⁶ Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?

² Should a wise man make answer with vain knowledge, And fill himself with the east wind?

² How long wilt thou speak these things? And `how long' shall the words of thy mouth be `like' a mighty wind?

³ I have heard the reproof which putteth me to shame; And the spirit of my understanding answereth me.

³ Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

⁴ Now Elihu had waited to speak unto Job, because they were elder than he.

⁵ And when Elihu saw that there was no answer in the mouth of these three men, his wrath was kindled.

⁶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.

⁴⁶ And no one was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

¹¹ whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

⁸ sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of us.