Job 15:1-13

Common English Bible

² Will the wise respond with windy knowledge
    and fill their belly with the east wind?
³ Will they argue with a word that has no benefit
    and with unprofitable words?
⁴ You are truly making religion ineffective
    and restraining meditation before God.
⁵ Your mouth multiplies your sins a thousand times;
    you opt for a clever tongue.
⁶ Your mouth condemns you, not I;
    your lips argue against you.
⁷ Were you born the first Adam,
    brought forth before the hills?
⁸ Did you listen in God’s council;
    is wisdom limited to you?
⁹ What do you know that we don’t know;
    what do you understand that isn’t among us?
¹⁰ Both the graybeard and the aged are with us;
    those much older than your father.
¹¹ Are God’s comforts not enough for you,
    a word spoken gently with you?
¹² Why has your mind seized you,
    why have your eyes flashed,
¹³     so that you return your breath to God
    and utter such words from your mouth?