⁷ Were you the first human?
    Are you older than the hills?
⁸ Have you ever been present
when God's council^[b] meets?
    Do you alone have wisdom?
⁹ Do you know and understand
    something we don't?
¹⁰ We have the benefit of wisdom
    older than your father.
¹¹ And you have been offered
comforting words from God.
    Isn't this enough?

¹² Your emotions are out of control,
    making you look fierce;
¹³ that's why you attack God
    with everything you say.
^14 (A) No human is pure and innocent,
¹⁵ and neither are angels—
    not in the sight of God.
If God doesn't trust his angels,
¹⁶     what chance do humans have?
We are so terribly evil
    that we thirst for sin.

²⁷ They may be rich and fat,
²⁸ but they will live in the ruins
    of deserted towns.
²⁹ Their property and wealth
    will shrink and disappear.
³⁰ They won't escape the darkness,
and the blazing breath of God
    will set their future aflame.
* ³¹ They have put their trust
    in something worthless;
now they will become worthless
³² like a date palm tree
    without a leaf.^[c]
33 Or like vineyards or orchards
whose blossoms and unripe fruit
    drop to the ground.
³⁴ Yes, the godless and the greedy
will have nothing but flames
    feasting on their homes,
³⁵ because they are the parents
    of trouble and vicious lies.