5. Your sin teaches you what to say.You choose ⌊to talk with⌋ a sly tongue.
6. Your ⌊own⌋ mouth condemns you, not I.Your lips testify against you.
7. “Were you the first human to be born?Were you delivered before the hills ⌊existed⌋?
8. Did you listen in on God’s council meetingand receive a monopoly on wisdom?
9. What do you know that we don’t know?What do you understand that we don’t?
10. Both the old and the gray-haired are among us.They are older than your father.
11. Isn’t God’s comfort enough for you,even when gently spoken to you?
12. Why have your emotions carried you away?Why do your eyes flash
13. when you turn against Godand spit these words out of your mouth?
14. Why should a mortal be considered faultlessor someone born of a woman be considered righteous?
15. If God doesn’t trust his holy ones,and the heavens are not pure in his sight,
16. how much less will he trust the one who is disgusting and corrupt,the one who drinks wickedness like water.
17. “I’ll tell you; listen to me!I’ll relate what I have seen.
18. I’ll tell you what wise people have declaredand what was not kept secret from their ancestors.
19. (The land was given to them alone,and no stranger passed through their land.)
20. “The wicked person is tortured all his days.Only a few years are reserved for the ruthless person.
21. Terrifying sounds are in his ears.While he enjoys peace, the destroyer comes to him.