¹² You have all seen this yourselves.
    Why then this meaningless talk?

As it is with the good,
    so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
    so with those who are afraid to take them.^(B)

² “How you have helped the powerless!^(A)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(B)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight^(C) you have displayed!
⁴ Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(D)

²⁸ You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,^(A)
    the tents where the wicked lived?’^(B)
29 Have you never questioned those who travel?
    Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
³⁰ that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,^(C)
    that they are delivered from^[a] the day of wrath?^(D)

³ Bear with me while I speak,
    and after I have spoken, mock on.^(A)

² “How long will you torment^(A) me
    and crush^(B) me with words?
³ Ten times^(C) now you have reproached^(D) me;
    shamelessly you attack me.

³ Will your long-winded speeches never end?^(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?^(B)