³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom, And plentifully declared sound knowledge!

¹³ Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

²⁰ how I shrank not from declaring unto you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly, and from house to house,

⁶ Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

⁷ For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.

⁹ They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.

¹⁵ My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, `And' of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers `thereof'.

¹⁶ I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Jehovah: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

¹⁷ O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.

¹⁸ Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto `the next' generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.

¹ Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,

² Both low and high, Rich and poor together.

³ My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

⁴ I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

² Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge?

³³ If not, hearken thou unto me: Hold thy peace, and I will teach thee wisdom.

³ My words `shall utter' the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.

¹¹ Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your reasonings, Whilst ye searched out what to say.

¹² Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

¹³ Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

¹⁰ But as for you all, come on now again; And I shall not find a wise man among you.

⁸ Hast thou heard the secret counsel of God? And dost thou limit wisdom to thyself?

⁹ What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us?

¹⁰ With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

⁵ Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! And it would be your wisdom.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

²⁷ For I shrank not from declaring unto you the whole counsel of God.