10. "Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
11. "Are the consolations of God too small for you, Even the word spoken gently with you?
12. "Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
13. That you should turn your spirit against God And allow such words to go out of your mouth?
14. "What is man, that he should be pure, Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. "Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones, And the heavens are not pure in His sight;
16. How much less one who is detestable and corrupt, Man, who drinks iniquity like water!
17. "I will tell you, listen to me; And what I have seen I will also declare;
18. What wise men have told, And have not concealed from their fathers,