3. Reasoning with unprofitable talk, and with speeches which do no good?
4. Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before ·God
5. For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou hast chosen the tongue of the crafty.
6. Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.
7. Art thou the first man that was born? and wast thou brought forth before the hills?
8. Hast thou listened in the secret council of +God And hast thou absorbed wisdom for thyself?
9. What knowest thou that we know not? what understandest thou which is not in us?
10. Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
11. Are the consolations of ·God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
12. Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
13. That thou turnest thy spirit against ·God and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
16. How much less the abominable and corrupt, --man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
17. I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;