⁸ Do you listen in on God’s council?^(A)
    Do you have a monopoly on wisdom?^(B)

⁹ What do you know that we do not know?
    What insights do you have that we do not have?^(A)

²² But if they had stood in my council,^(A)
    they would have proclaimed^(B) my words to my people
and would have turned^(C) them from their evil ways
    and from their evil deeds.^(D)

“Who has known the mind of the Lord
    so as to instruct him?”^[a](A)