15:8 Do you listen in on God’s secret council? 1
Do you limit 2 wisdom to yourself?
15:9 What do you know that we don’t know?
What do you understand that we don’t understand? 3
15:10 The gray-haired 4 and the aged are on our side, 5
men far older than your father. 6
15:15 If God places no trust in his holy ones, 7
if even the heavens 8 are not pure in his eyes,
41:1 “Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! 9
Let the nations find renewed strength!
Let them approach and then speak;
let us come together for debate! 10
41:21 “Present your argument,” says the Lord.
“Produce your evidence,” 11 says Jacob’s king. 12
41:22 “Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen!
Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, 13
so we may examine them 14 and see how they were fulfilled. 15
Or decree for us some future events!
41:23 Predict how future events will turn out, 16
so we might know you are gods.
Yes, do something good or bad,
so we might be frightened and in awe. 17
12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, 18 we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,