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Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite answered:

‘I am young in years,
    and you are aged;
therefore I was timid and afraid
    to declare my opinion to you.
I said, “Let days speak,
    and many years teach wisdom.”
But truly it is the spirit in a mortal,
    the breath of the Almighty,[a] that makes for understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 32:8 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai

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