8. Have you heard the secret counsel of God?Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9. What do you know, that we don’t know?What do you understand, which is not in us?
10. With us are both the grey-headed and the very aged men,much elder than your father.
11. Are the consolations of God too small for you,even the word that is gentle towards you?
12. Why does your heart carry you away?Why do your eyes flash,
13. That you turn your spirit against God,and let such words go out of your mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be clean?What is he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Behold, he puts no trust in his holy ones.Yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight;
16. how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,a man who drinks iniquity like water!
17. “I will show you, listen to me;that which I have seen I will declare
18. (which wise men have told by their fathers,and have not hidden it;
19. to whom alone the land was given,and no stranger passed amongst them):
20. the wicked man writhes in pain all his days,even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21. A sound of terrors is in his ears.In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
22. He doesn’t believe that he shall return out of darkness.He is waited for by the sword.
23. He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24. Distress and anguish make him afraid.They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.