2 - "Hear my words, you wise men.Give ear to me, you who have knowledge.
3 - For the ear tries words,as the palate tastes food.
4 - Let us choose for us that which is right.Let us know among ourselves what is good.
5 - For Job has said, 'I am righteous,God has taken away my right:
6 - Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar.My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.'
7 - What man is like Job,who drinks scorn like water,
8 - Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity,and walks with wicked men?
9 - For he has said, 'It profits a man nothingthat he should delight himself with God.'
10 - "Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding:far be it from God, that he should do wickedness,from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
11 - For the work of a man he will render to him,and cause every man to find according to his ways.
12 - Yes surely, God will not do wickedly,neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 - Who put him in charge of the earth?or who has appointed him over the whole world?
14 - If he set his heart on himself,If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath,
15 - all flesh would perish together,and man would turn again to dust.
16 - "If now you have understanding, hear this.Listen to the voice of my words.
17 - Shall even one who hates justice govern?Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?-
18 - Who says to a king, 'Vile!'or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?
19 - Who doesn't respect the persons of princes,nor respects the rich more than the poor;for they all are the work of his hands.
20 - In a moment they die, even at midnight.The people are shaken and pass away.The mighty are taken away without a hand.
21 - "For his eyes are on the ways of a man.He sees all his goings.
22 - There is no darkness, nor thick gloom,where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 - For he doesn't need to consider a man further,that he should go before God in judgment.
24 - He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out,and sets others in their place.
25 - Therefore he takes knowledge of their works.He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.
26 - He strikes them as wicked menin the open sight of others;
27 - because they turned aside from following him,and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,
28 - so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him.He heard the cry of the afflicted.
29 - When he gives quietness, who then can condemn?When he hides his face, who then can see him?Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,
30 - that the godless man may not reign,that there be no one to ensnare the people.
31 - "For has any said to God,'I am guilty, but I will not offend any more.
32 - Teach me that which I don't see.If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
33 - Shall his recompense be as you desire, that you refuse it?For you must choose, and not I.Therefore speak what you know.
34 - Men of understanding will tell me,yes, every wise man who hears me:
35 - 'Job speaks without knowledge.His words are without wisdom.'
36 - I wish that Job were tried to the end,because of his answering like wicked men.
37 - For he adds rebellion to his sin.He claps his hands among us,and multiplies his words against God."
