But please, come back again, all of you, for I do not find a wise one among you.
“Truly you are the people, and wisdom would die with you!
What do you know that we do not know – understand, that is not within us?
My days have passed by, my plans have been broken off – the desires of my heart.
For You have hidden their heart from understanding, therefore You do not exalt them.
Why should we be reckoned as beasts, as stupid in your eyes?
The multitude are not wise, nor do the aged understand right-ruling.
And it came to be, after יהוה had spoken these words to Iyoḇ
Relent, please, let there be no unrighteousness. Relent! My righteousness is still in it.
“Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him.
Where is the wise? Where is the scholar? Where is the debater of this age? Has not Elohim made foolish the wisdom of this world?
I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise one among you, not even one, who shall be able to judge between his brothers?