Job 15:1-13

New Living Translation

² “A wise man wouldn’t answer with such empty talk!
    You are nothing but a windbag.
³ The wise don’t engage in empty chatter.
    What good are such words?
⁴ Have you no fear of God,
    no reverence for him?
⁵ Your sins are telling your mouth what to say.
    Your words are based on clever deception.
⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not I.
    Your own lips testify against you.

⁷ “Were you the first person ever born?
    Were you born before the hills were made?
⁸ Were you listening at God’s secret council?
    Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?
⁹ What do you know that we don’t?
    What do you understand that we do not?
¹⁰ On our side are aged, gray-haired men
    much older than your father!

¹¹ “Is God’s comfort too little for you?
    Is his gentle word not enough?
¹² What has taken away your reason?
    What has weakened your vision,^[a]
13 that you turn against God
    and say all these evil things?