1Then Job said to his three friends,
2“You ◄talk as though/You think► [SAR] that you are the people whom everyone should listen to,
3But I have as much good sense as you do;
4My friends all laugh at me now.
5Those like you who have no troubles make fun of me;
6Bandits live peacefully,
7“But ask the wild animals what they know about God,
8If you could ask the creatures that crawl on the ground, or the fish in the sea,
9All of them certainly know [RHQ] that it is Yahweh who has made them with his hands.
10He directs the lives of all living creatures;
11And when we [SYN] hear what other people like you say,
12Old people are often very wise,
13but God is wise and very powerful;
14If he tears something down, no one can rebuild it;
15When he prevents rain from falling, everything dries up.
16He is the one who is truly strong and wise;
17He sometimes causes the king’s officials to no longer be wise,
18He takes from kings the robes that they wear
19He takes from priests the sacred clothes that they wear, with the result that they no longer can do their work,
20He sometimes causes those whom others trust to be unable to speak,
21He causes those who have authority to be despised,
22He causes things that are hidden in the darkness to be revealed.
23He causes some nations to become very great,
24He causes some rulers to become foolish/stupid,
25They grope around in the darkness, without any light,