6. Your own mouth condemns you, not I.Your own lips testify against you.
7. “Were you the first person ever born?Were you born before the hills were made?
8. Were you listening at God’s secret council?Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
9. What do you know that we don’t?What do you understand that we do not?
10. On our side are aged, gray-haired menmuch older than your father!
11. “Is God’s comfort too little for you?Is his gentle word not enough?
12. What has taken away your reason?What has weakened your vision,
13. that you turn against Godand say all these evil things?
14. Can any mortal be pure?Can anyone born of a woman be just?
15. Look, God does not even trust the angels.Even the heavens are not absolutely pure in his sight.
16. How much less pure is a corrupt and sinful personwith a thirst for wickedness!
17. “If you will listen, I will show you.I will answer you from my own experience.
18. And it is confirmed by the reports of wise menwho have heard the same thing from their fathers—