Job 32

“I am young, and you are very old.

Therefore I held back, and didn’t dare show you my opinion.

⁷I said, ‘Days should speak,

and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

⁸But there is a spirit in man,

and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

⁹It is not the great who are wise,

nor the aged who understand justice.

¹⁰Therefore I said, ‘Listen to me;

I also will show my opinion.’

¹¹“Behold, I waited for your words,

and I listened for your reasoning,

while you searched out what to say.

¹²Yes, I gave you my full attention,

but there was no one who convinced Job,

or who answered his words, among you.

¹³Beware lest you say, ‘We have found wisdom.

God may refute him, not man;’

¹⁴for he has not directed his words against me;

neither will I answer him with your speeches.

¹⁵“They are amazed. They answer no more.

They don’t have a word to say.

¹⁶Shall I wait, because they don’t speak,

because they stand still, and answer no more?

¹⁷I also will answer my part,

and I also will show my opinion.

¹⁸For I am full of words.

The spirit within me constrains me.

¹⁹Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent;

like new wineskins it is ready to burst.

²⁰I will speak, that I may be refreshed.

I will open my lips and answer.

²¹Please don’t let me respect any man’s person,

neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

²²For I don’t know how to give flattering titles,

or else my Maker would soon take me away.