2. “Listen to my words, you wise men;hear me, you learned men.
3. For the ear assesses wordsas the mouth tastes food.
4. Let us evaluate for ourselves what is right;let us come to know among ourselves what is good.
5. For Job says, ‘I am innocent,but God turns away my right.
6. Concerning my right, should I lie?My wound is incurable,although I am without transgression.’
7. What man is like Job,who drinks derision like water!
8. He goes about in company with evildoers,he goes along with wicked men.
9. For he says, ‘It does not profit a manwhen he makes his delight with God.’
10. “Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.Far be it from God to do wickedness,from the Almighty to do evil.