| 4 | But you are doing away with the fear of God, and hindering meditation before God. |
| 5 | For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. |
| 6 | Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you. |
| 7 | "Are you the first man that was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills? |
| 8 | Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself? |
| 9 | What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us? |