7. Are you the first man who was born, or were you formed before the hills?
8. Have you heard the intentions of God, and will his wisdom be inferior to you?
9. What do you know, about which we are ignorant? What do you understand that we do not know?
10. There are with us both aged and ancient men, even more senior than your fathers.
11. Is it so important that God should console you? But your own depraved words prevent this.
12. Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?
13. Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
14. What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
15. Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16. How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
17. I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.
18. The wise acknowledge, and they do not leave behind, their fathers,