Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite of the clan of Ram became very angry. He was angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.
Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
Is it good for You to oppress, to despise the work of Your hands, while You smile on the plans of the wicked?
For your iniquity prompts your mouth and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Is not your wickedness great, and is there no end to your iniquity?
“As God lives, who has deprived me of justice, Shaddai who has made my soul bitter,
Far be it from me to say that you are just; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!
I will maintain my righteousness, and not let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for any of my days.
You have turned on me cruelly; You attack me with the might of Your hand.
He was also angry with his three friends because they had not found an answer, and yet had condemned Job.
“Indeed, you have said in my hearing, —I heard the sound of the words:
“Do you think this is just? Do you say, ‘My righteousness is greater than God’s?’
“Would you really annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
I have become a stranger to my brothers, a foreigner to my mother’s children.
After looking around at them with anger, grieved by their hardness of heart, He says to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
But wanting to vindicate himself, he said to Yeshua, “Then who is my neighbor?”
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun go down on your anger,