3 Elihu was also angry with Job’s three friends because they could not answer him, and yet they still considered him guilty of doing wrong.
4 Elihu was the youngest one there, so he had waited until everyone finished talking.
5 But when he saw that Job’s three friends had nothing more to say, his anger forced him to speak.
6 So here’s what Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite said: “I am only a young man, and you are all older. That is why I was afraid to tell you what I think.
7 I thought to myself, ‘Older people should speak first. They have lived many years, so they have learned many things.’
8 But it is the spirit in people, the breath from God All-Powerful, that makes them understand.
9 Old men are not the only wise people. They are not the only ones who understand what is right.