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Should your empty words reduce men to silence?
Can you be allowed to scoff without anyone putting you in your place?
You say, “What I teach is untainted,
and I am pure in your eyes.”
Oh how I wish that God would speak up,
open his lips against you,

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Will your idle talk(A) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?(B)
You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless(C)
    and I am pure(D) in your sight.’
Oh, how I wish that God would speak,(E)
    that he would open his lips against you

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