² Should this abundance of words^(A) go unanswered
and such a talker^[a] be acquitted?
³ Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?
⁴ You have said, “My teaching^(B) is sound,
and I am pure in your sight.”
⁵ But if only God would speak
and open his lips against you!
⁶ He would show you the secrets of wisdom,^(C)
for true wisdom has two sides.
Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.^(D)