He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.