³⁷ For in addition to his sin, he is uncontrolled in heart; before our eyes he makes sport of God, increasing his words against him.

²³ Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.

²³ For to go against his orders is like the sin of those who make use of secret arts, and pride is like giving worship to images. Because you have put away from you the word of the Lord, he has put you from your place as king.

¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

²⁰ But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

² How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

³ Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?

² Are all these words to go unanswered? and is a man seen to be right because he is full of talk?

³ Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?

² Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

² Does it seem to you to be right, and righteousness before God, to say,

³ What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

¹⁶ And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.

⁷ And it came about, after he had said these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, I am very angry with you and your two friends, because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.