26. He strikes them where the wicked stood, where there are onlookers,
27. because they have turned aside from him and have not understood any of his ways,
28. so that they cause the cry of distress from the helpless to come to him, and he hears the cry of distress from the needy,
29. but he remains quiet, and who can condemn? And he hides his face, and who can behold him? Yet he is over a nation and over a person alike,
30. so that godless human beings should not reign, nor those who ensnare the people.
31. “Indeed, does anyone say to God, ‘I have endured chastisement; I will not act corruptly again;
32. teach me yourself what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not repeat it’?
33. According to your judgment, must he repay it because you rejected this? Indeed, you must choose, and not I, so declare what you know.
34. Those who have sense say to me, and the wise man hearing me says:
35. ‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words are without insight.
36. Would that Job were tested up to the end because his answers are like those from men of mischief,
37. for he adds transgression to his sin; he claps hands among us, and he multiplies his words against God.’ ”