Job 15:7-17

7 "Were you the firstborn of the human race, brought forth before the hills?
8 Do you listen in on God's secrets? Do you limit wisdom to yourself?
9 What do you know that we don't know? What discernment do you have that we don't?
10 With us are gray-haired men, old men, men much older than your father.
11 Are the comfortings of God not enough for you, or a word that deals gently with you?
12 Why does your heart carry you away, and why do your eyes flash angrily,
13 so that you turn your spirit against God and let such words escape your mouth?
14 "What is a human being, that he could be innocent, someone born from a woman, that he could be righteous?
15 God doesn't trust even his holy ones; no, even the heavens are not innocent in his view.
16 How much less one loathesome and corrupt, a human being, who drinks iniquity like water.
17 "I will tell you - hear me out! I will recount what I have seen;
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