2Should a spiritually minded man answer with knowledge and then become enraged?

3Should he admonish with unprofitable talk, or with words that are worthless?

4Yea, you also are discarding reverence, and talk too much in the presence of God.

5For your mouth is accustomed to utter sinful things, and you choose the deceitful tongue of the crafty.

6Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; yea, your own lips testify against you in my presence.

7Are you the first man that was born? Or were you conceived before the hills?

8Have you heard of the secrets of God? Has his wisdom been revealed to you?

9Or what do you know that we do not know? Or what do you under, stand that we do not understand?

10Behold, there are among us the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older in days than your father.

11Now talk less of God's threats, and speak comfortingly to yourself.

12Why does your heart boast? And what do your eyes wink at,

13That you boast in the presence of God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

14What is man, that he should be innocent? Or he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

15Behold, he puts no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

16Even though man should be rejected and afflicted, yet he shall drink iniquity like water.

17Hear me, I will show you; and that which I have seen I will repeat;

18That which wise men have declared, and did not hide from their fathers;

19To whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.

20The wicked man magnifies himself all his days, and the number of the years of the violent man is hidden.

21A dreadful sound is in his ears; in prosperity the spoiler shall come upon him.

22He does not believe that he shall be overthrown because of the darkness, and that he shall see the sword.

23He flees because of the threat of judgment; he does not know that the day of darkness is already at his hand,

24Trouble and anguish shall overtake him, like a king ready for the battle,

25Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and strengthened himself against the Almighty.

26He runs against him proudly, and strangles him, with the multitudes of his shields;

27Because he has deceived himself with his wealth, and he places Pleiades above Aldebaran.

28And he dwells in desolate cities, which no man has inhabited; then he prepares for war.

29He shall not continue, neither shall his strength endure, nor shall his words be established upon the earth.

30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he be rejected.

31Let him not trust in deceptive vanity, for his growth is in vain.

32He shall dry up before his time, and the work of his hands shall not be found.

33He shall shake off his unripe grapes, as the vine, and shall cast off his flowers as the olive tree.

34For the congregation of the godless shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacle of the wicked.

35They conceive mischief and bring forth deceit, and their belly is full of guile.