But oh, that God would speak and open His lips against you,
For you have said, ‘My teaching is pure, And I am clean in your eyes.’
and that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your prudence. And know that God overlooks some of your iniquity.
“Oh, that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that the One who contends against me had written a book!
“Will you indeed annul My judgment? Will you condemn Me, that you may be righteous?
And so it was, that after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right as My servant Job has.