And Job took up his discourse again, saying:
Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
Again Job took up his discourse saying:
My mouth speaks wisdom, My heart’s meditation is understanding.
I will open my mouth with a parable. I will utter perplexing sayings from of old,
Like a lame man’s legs that hang limp, so is a proverb in a fool’s mouth.
Then he uttered his oracle and said, “From Aram, Balak brought me, Moab’s king from the mountains of the east: ‘Come! Curse Jacob for me! ‘Come! Denounce Israel!’
Then he uttered his oracle: The oracle of Balaam son of Beor, the strong man whose eye is opened,
He uttered his oracle and said: “This is the oracle of Balaam son of Beor, and the oracle of a strong man whose eye has been opened,
