³ Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

²⁶ Do you intend to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

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

² "How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

³ I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame; The spirit of my understanding answers me.

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

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

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

⁶ Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

⁴⁶ No one was able to answer him a word, neither dared 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 dishonest gain's sake.

⁸ and soundness of speech that can't be condemned; that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.