9. What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
10. Both the gray-haired and the old are among us— those older than your father.
11. “Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word spoken gently with you?
12. Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
13. that you turn your spirit against God, and you let such words go out of your mouth?
14. “What is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15. Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
16. How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
17. “I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell—
18. what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,
19. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
20. “All of the wicked one’s days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
21. Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.