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

⁷ while the morning stars^(A) sang together^(B)
    and all the angels^[a](C) shouted for joy?^(D)

²⁰ Praise the Lord,^(A) you his angels,^(B)
    you mighty ones^(C) who do his bidding,^(D)
    who obey his word.
²¹ Praise the Lord, all his heavenly hosts,^(E)
    you his servants^(F) who do his will.

² Praise him, all his angels;^(A)
    praise him, all his heavenly hosts.^(B)

¹⁸ But which of them has stood in the council^(A) of the Lord
    to see or to hear his word?
    Who has listened and heard his word?

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)