6. It is your own mouth, not mine, that shows you are wicked.Your own lips speak as a witness against you.
7. “You are not the first man ever born.You were not born before the hills were made.
8. You cannot listen in on God’s secret advice.You cannot limit wisdom to yourself.
9. You don’t know any more than we know.You don’t understand any more than we understand.
10. Old people with gray hair are on our side.They are men even older than your father.
11. The comfort God gives you is not enough for you,even when words are spoken gently to you.
12. Your heart has carried you away from God.Your eyes flash with anger.
13. You speak out your anger against God.And these words pour out of your mouth.
14. “How can man be pure?How can a person born to a woman be good?
15. God places no trust in his holy ones.Even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
16. And man is even less than they are. He is terrible and rotten.He drinks up evil as if it were water!
17. “Job, listen to me, and I will tell you about it.I will tell you what I have seen.
18. These are things wise men have told.Their ancestors told them these things, and they have hidden nothing.
19. (The land was given to their fathers only.No foreigner lived among them.)
20. The evil man suffers pain all his life.The cruel man suffers during all the years saved up for him.
21. Terrible sounds fill his ears.When things seem to be going well, robbers attack him.
22. The evil person gives up trying to escape from the darkness.It has been decided that he will die by the sword.
23. He wanders around. He will become food for vultures.He knows death will soon come.
24. Worry and suffering terrify him.They overwhelm him. They seem like a king ready to attack.