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

¹⁶ Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

³ Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

⁷ Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

³⁵ Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

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

⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me.

²⁵ And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

³ How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

¹¹ I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.