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² "If you were really wise,
    you would not answer with your worthless personal opinions!
    A wise man would not be so full of hot air.
³ Do you think a wise man would use empty words
    and meaningless speeches to win his arguments?
⁴ If you had your way,
    no one would respect God and pray to him.
⁵ What you say clearly shows your sin.
    Job, you are trying to hide your sin by using clever words.
⁶ I don't need to prove to you that you are wrong.
    The words from your own mouth show that you are wrong.
    Your own lips speak against you.

⁷ "Do you think you were the first person ever to be born?
    Were you born before the hills?
⁸ Did you listen to God's secret plans?
    Do you think you are the only wise person?
⁹ We know as much as you do!
    We understand as well as you.
¹⁰ The old, gray-haired men agree with us.
    People older than your father are on our side.
¹¹ God tries to comfort you, but that is not enough for you.
    We have spoken his message to you in a gentle way.
¹² Why will you not understand?
    Why can you not see the truth?
¹³ You are expressing your anger against God
    when you say these things.

¹⁴ "People cannot really be pure.
    They^[a] cannot be more right than God!
¹⁵ God does not even trust his angels.^[b]
    He does not even think the sky is pure.
¹⁶ People are even worse.
    They are disgusting and dirty.
    They drink up evil like water.

¹⁷ "Listen to me, and I will explain it to you.
    Let me tell you what I have seen.
¹⁸ I will tell you what wise men would say,
    things they heard from their fathers and then freely passed on.
    They didn't hide any secrets from me.
¹⁹ These are important people in our country!
    Everyone knows who they are.
²⁰ And they said that an evil man suffers all his life.
    A cruel man suffers all his numbered years.
²¹ Every noise scares him.
    His enemy will attack him when he thinks he is safe.
²² An evil man has no hope of escaping the darkness.
    There is a sword somewhere waiting to kill him.
²³ He wanders from place to place, looking for food.
    But he knows a dark day is coming, which he brought on himself.
²⁴ He lives in fear, with worry and suffering threatening him
    like a king ready to attack.
²⁵ That is because that evil man shook his fist at God, refusing to obey.
    He dared to attack God All-Powerful,
²⁶ like a soldier with a thick, strong shield
    who runs at his enemy to strike him in the neck.
²⁷ He might be rich and fat,
²⁸     but his town will be ruined;
his home will be destroyed;
    his house will be empty.
²⁹ He will not be rich for long.
    His wealth will not last.
    His crops will not grow large.
³⁰ He will not escape the darkness.
    He will be like a tree whose leaves die from disease
    and are blown away by the wind.
³¹ That evil man should not fool himself by trusting in worthless things,
    because he will keep nothing.
³² He will die before his time,
    like a tree whose top branches have already begun to die.
³³ He will be like a vine that loses its grapes before they ripen.
    He will be like an olive tree that loses its buds.
³⁴ That is because people without God have nothing.
    Those who take bribes will have their homes destroyed by fire.
³⁵ They are always thinking of ways to do evil and cause trouble.
    They are always planning how they might cheat others."