Who {is} he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words {were} without wisdom.

I would order {my} cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I will teach you by the hand of God: {that} which {is} with the Almighty will I not conceal. {by...: or, being in the hand, etc}

But I have understanding as well as you; I {am} not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these? {understanding: Heb. an heart} {I am...: Heb. I fall not lower than you} {who...: Heb. with whom are not such as these?}

And if {it be} not {so} now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

How hast thou counselled {him that hath} no wisdom? and {how} hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Who {is} he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words {were} without wisdom.

There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

For {there is} not a word in my tongue, {but}, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed {it}, Why hast thou made me thus? {repliest...: or, answerest again, or, disputest with God?}

How hast thou counselled {him that hath} no wisdom? and {how} hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, {beguile...: or, judge against you} {in a...: Gr. being a voluntary in humility}

Do ye imagine to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, {which are} as wind?

My words {shall be of} the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.

Teach us what we shall say unto him; {for} we cannot order {our speech} by reason of darkness.

Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.