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² "Hear my words, you wise men,
    and give ear to me, you who know;
³ for ^(a)the ear tests words
    as the palate tastes food.
⁴ Let us choose ^(b)what is right;
    let us know among ourselves what is good.
⁵ For Job has said, ‘I am ^(c)in the right,
    and ^(d)God has taken away my right;
⁶ in spite of my right I am counted a liar;
    my wound is incurable, though I am ^(e)without transgression.'
⁷ What man is like Job,
    who ^(f)drinks up scoffing like water,
⁸ who travels in company with evildoers
    and walks ^(g)with wicked men?
⁹ For ^(h)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
    that he should take delight in God.'

¹⁰ "Therefore, hear me, you men of understanding:
    far be it from God that he should ⁽ⁱ⁾do wickedness,
    and from the Almighty that he should do wrong.
¹¹ For according to ^(j)the work of a man he will repay him,
    and ^(k)according to his ways he will make it befall him.
¹² Of a truth, God will not do wickedly,
    and ^(l)the Almighty will not pervert justice.
¹³ Who gave him charge over the earth,
    and who ^(m)laid on him^[a] the whole world?
¹⁴ If he should ⁽ⁿ⁾set his heart to it
    and ^(o)gather to himself his ^(p)spirit and his breath,
¹⁵ all flesh would perish together,
    and man would ^(q)return to dust.

¹⁶ "If you have understanding, hear this;
    listen to what I say.
^17 (r)Shall one who hates justice govern?
    Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
¹⁸ who ^(s)says to a king, ‘Worthless one,'
    and to nobles, ‘Wicked man,'
¹⁹ who ^(t)shows no partiality to princes,
    nor regards the rich ^(u)more than the poor,
    for ^(v)they are all the work of his hands?
²⁰ In a moment ^(w)they die;
    at ^(x)midnight the people are shaken and pass away,
    and the mighty are taken away by ^(y)no human hand.

²¹ "For his eyes are on ^(z)the ways of a man,
    and he sees all his ^(aa)steps.
²² There is no ^(ab)gloom or ^(ac)deep darkness
    where evildoers may hide themselves.
²³ For God^[b] has no need to consider a man further,
    that he should go before God in ^(ad)judgment.
²⁴ He ^(ae)shatters the mighty without investigation
    and sets ^(af)others in their place.
²⁵ Thus, knowing their works,
    he ^(ag)overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.
²⁶ He strikes them for their wickedness
    in a place for all to see,
²⁷ because they turned aside from ^(ah)following him
    and had no regard for any of his ways,
²⁸ so that they ^(ai)caused the cry of the poor to come to him,
    and he ^(aj)heard the cry of the afflicted—
²⁹ When he is quiet, who can condemn?
    When he hides his face, who can behold him,
    whether it be a nation or a man?—
³⁰ that a godless man should not reign,
    that he should not ensnare the people.

³¹ "For has anyone said to God,
    ‘I have borne punishment; I will not offend any more;
^32 (ak)teach me what I do not see;
    if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?
³³ Will he then make repayment to suit you,
    because you reject it?
For you must choose, and not I;
    therefore ^(al)declare what you know.^[c]
34 Men of understanding will say to me,
    and the wise man who hears me will say:
³⁵ ‘Job ^(am)speaks without knowledge;
    his words are without insight.'
³⁶ Would that Job were tried to the end,
    because he answers like wicked men.
³⁷ For he adds rebellion to his sin;
    he ^(an)claps his hands among us
    and multiplies his words against God."