For ask of the former generation, and search diligently among the race of our fathers:

shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?

So then you [alone] are men, and wisdom shall die with you?

For what you know, do we know not? Or what you understand, do we not also?

Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days than your father.

But I will tell you, listen to me; I will tell you now what I have seen;

Give ear to my words; for I will speak in your hearing, until you have tried the matter with words:

I have paid close attention to you; and behold, not one of you convinced Job, or answered his words-

The works of the Lord are great, sought out according to all His will.

For if you shall call to wisdom, and utter your voice for understanding;

then shall you understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Is it not the Lord that teaches understanding and knowledge?

to keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His statutes, all that I command you this day, that it may be well with you?

Son, if you are wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbors; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. [ 9:12A] He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: [ 9:12B] for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own cart to go astray; [ 9:12C] and he goes through a dry desert, and [a land] appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.