3 Your tongue tastes the food it touches, and your ear tests the words it hears.
4 So let us test these arguments and decide for ourselves what is right. Together we will learn what is good.
5 Job says, ‘I am innocent, and God is not being fair to me.
6 I am right, but I am judged to be a liar. I have done no wrong, but I am badly hurt.’
7 “Would anyone but Job say such things? He has more thirst for insulting God than for water.
8 He is a friend of evil people. He likes to spend time with the wicked.
9 I know this because he says, ‘You will gain nothing if you try to please God.’