² “Are all these words to go unanswered?^(B)
    Is this talker to be vindicated?^(C)
3 Will your idle talk^(D) reduce others to silence?
    Will no one rebuke you when you mock?^(E)
4 You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless^(F)
    and I am pure^(G) in your sight.’
⁵ Oh, how I wish that God would speak,^(H)
    that he would open his lips against you
⁶ and disclose to you the secrets of wisdom,^(I)
    for true wisdom has two sides.
    Know this: God has even forgotten some of your sin.^(J)

⁷ “Can you fathom^(K) the mysteries of God?
    Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
⁸ They are higher^(L) than the heavens^(M) above—what can you do?
    They are deeper than the depths below^(N)—what can you know?^(O)
9 Their measure^(P) is longer than the earth
    and wider than the sea.^(Q)

¹³ “Yet if you devote your heart^(A) to him
    and stretch out your hands^(B) to him,^(C)
14 if you put away^(D) the sin that is in your hand
    and allow no evil^(E) to dwell in your tent,^(F)
15 then, free of fault, you will lift up your face;^(G)
    you will stand firm^(H) and without fear.^(I)
16 You will surely forget your trouble,^(J)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.^(K)
17 Life will be brighter than noonday,^(L)
    and darkness will become like morning.^(M)
18 You will be secure, because there is hope;
    you will look about you and take your rest^(N) in safety.^(O)
19 You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid,^(P)
    and many will court your favor.^(Q)
20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail,^(R)
    and escape will elude them;^(S)
    their hope will become a dying gasp.”^(T)