3. Should he reason with unprofitable davar (talk)? Or with speeches wherewith no good is done?
4. Yea, thou makest void yireh [Elohim], and doth diminish si'akh (meditation) before El.
5. For thy mouth uttereth thine avon, and thou choosest the leshon arumim (tongue of the crafty).
6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and loh Ani (not I); yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
7. Art thou harishon adam (the first man) that was born? Or wast thou made before the hills?
8. Hast thou attended to the sod Eloah (counsel of G-d)? And dost thou limit chochmah to thyself?
9. Of what dost thou have da'as, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?
10. Both the grayheaded and very aged men are among us, much elder than avicha.
11. Are the tanechumot El (consolations of G-d) not enough for thee? Or the davar that deals gently with thee?
12. Why doth thine lev carry thee away? And why do thy eyes flash,
13. That thou ventest thy ruach against El (G-d), and lettest such words pour out of thy mouth?