'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

[Just] as I have seen, plowers of mischief and sowers of trouble will reap it.

Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.

Will you keep [to the] way of old that [the] people of mischief have trod,

[They] conceive trouble and bring forth mischief, and their womb prepares deceit."

And he goes on the road in company with instigators of mischief, and walks with men of wickedness.

There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.

Would that Job were tested up to [the] end because [his] answers [are] like [those from] men of mischief,

So he opens their ear to the discipline, and he commands that they return from mischief.

Take care, you must not turn to mischief, for because of this you have been tried by misery.

Is not disaster for [the] evil one and ruin for [the] workers of mischief?