¹⁹ Teach us what we shall say to him;
    we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.

² Surely I am too stupid to be human;
    I do not have human understanding.^(A)
3 I have not learned wisdom,
    nor have I knowledge of the holy ones.^[a](B)
4 Who has ascended to heaven and come down?
    Who has gathered the wind in the hollow of the hand?
Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment?
    Who has established all the ends of the earth?
What is the person’s name?
    And what is the name of the person’s child?
    Surely you know!^(C)

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
    it is so high that I cannot attain it.^(A)

²² I was stupid and ignorant;
    I was like a brute beast toward you.^(A)

¹⁶ But when I thought how to understand this,
    it seemed to me a wearisome task,^(A)
17 until I went into the sanctuary of God;
    then I perceived their end.^(B)

³ ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me that I did not know.^(A)