² “Are all these words to go unanswered?^(A)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?^(B)
3 Will your idle talk^(C) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?^(D)
4 You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless^(E)
    and I am pure^(F) in your sight.’
⁵ Oh, how I wish that God would speak,^(G)
    that he would open his lips against you
⁶ and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,^(H)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.^(I)

⁷ “Can you fathom^(J) the mysteries of God?
    Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
⁸ They are higher^(K) than the heavens^(L) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below^(M)—what can you know?^(N)
9 Their measure^(O) is longer than the earth
    and wider than the sea.^(P)

¹⁰ “If he comes along and confines you in prison
    and convenes a court, who can oppose him?^(Q)
11 Surely he recognizes deceivers;
    and when he sees evil, does he not take note?^(R)
12 But the witless can no more become wise
    than a wild donkey’s colt^(S) can be born human.^[a](T)