⁶ Your own mouth condemns you, not mine;
    your own lips testify against you.^(A)

²⁰ Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
    if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.^(A)

⁸ He will turn their own tongues against them^(A)
    and bring them to ruin;
    all who see them will shake their heads^(B) in scorn.^(C)

³ You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’^(A)
    Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me to know.^(B)

⁸ “Would you discredit my justice?^(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?^(B)

² “Do you think this is just?
    You say, ‘I am in the right,^(A) not God.’^(B)
3 Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,^[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’^(C)

⁵ “Job says, ‘I am innocent,^(A)
    but God denies me justice.^(B)
6 Although I am right,
    I am considered a liar;^(C)
although I am guiltless,^(D)
    his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’^(E)
7 Is there anyone like Job,
    who drinks scorn like water?^(F)
8 He keeps company with evildoers;
    he associates with the wicked.^(G)
9 For he says, ‘There is no profit
    in trying to please God.’^(H)