29. “But if He is quiet, who can condemn Him? If He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He is over a nation and an individual alike,
30. so that godless men should not rule, nor lay snares for people.
31. “Suppose someone says to God, ‘I have born chastisement, but I will not act wickedly any more.
32. Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will not do it again.’
33. Should He requite it on your terms, because you reject it? But you must choose and not I; now declare what you know.
34. “Men of understanding declare, wise men who hear me say to me,
35. ‘Job speaks without knowledge, and his words lack understanding.’