2. “Hear my words, you wise men; give ear to me, you men of learning.
3. For the ear tests words as the mouth tastes food.
4. Let us choose for ourselves what is right; Let us learn together what is good.
5. “For Job says, ‘I am righteous, but God has deprived me of justice.
6. Concerning my right, should I lie? My wound is incurable, although I am without transgression.’
7. What man is like Job, who drinks mockery like water,
8. who keeps company with evildoers, and walks with wicked men?
9. For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
10. “Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding: Wickedness is far from God, injustice from Shaddai
11. For He repays a person for what he has done, and brings on the person what he deserves.
12. “Truly God does not act wickedly, and Shaddai does not pervert justice.
13. Who appointed Him over the earth? Who put Him over the whole world?
14. “If He were to set His heart on it, and gather to Himself His Ruach and breath,
15. all flesh would perish together and mankind would return to dust.