New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 31
33 “Have I tried to hide my sins like other people do, concealing my guilt in my heart?
34 Have I feared the crowd or the contempt of the masses, so that I kept quiet and stayed indoors?
35 “If only someone would listen to me! Look, I will sign my name to my defense. Let the Almighty answer me. Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
36 I would face the accusation proudly. I would wear it like a crown.
37 For I would tell him exactly what I have done. I would come before him like a prince.
38 “If my land accuses me and all its furrows cry out together,
39 or if I have stolen its crops or murdered its owners,
40 then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley.” Job’s words are ended.
Job 32
1 Job’s three friends refused to reply further to him because he kept insisting on his innocence.
2 Then Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the clan of Ram, became angry. He was angry because Job refused to admit that he had sinned and that God was right in punishing him.
3 He was also angry with Job’s three friends, for they made God appear to be wrong by their inability to answer Job’s arguments.
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