²⁷ Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

² Great `are' the works of Jehovah, Sought out by all desiring them.

¹² If thou hast been wise, thou hast been wise for thyself, And thou hast scorned -- thyself bearest `it'.

³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

¹¹ Lo, I have waited for your words, I give ear unto your reasons, Till ye search out sayings.

¹² And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, `Or' answerer of his sayings among you.

² To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?

¹⁷ I shew thee -- hearken to me -- And this I have seen and declare:

⁹ What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us?

¹⁰ Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.

² Truly -- ye `are' the people, And with you doth wisdom die.

⁸ For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

⁹ (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

¹⁰ Do they not shew thee -- speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?

¹³ to keep the commands of Jehovah, and His statutes which I am commanding thee to-day, for good to thee?