Job 20:2-4

New International Version

² “My troubled thoughts prompt me to answer
    because I am greatly disturbed.^(A)
3 I hear a rebuke^(B) that dishonors me,
    and my understanding inspires me to reply.

⁴ “Surely you know how it has been from of old,^(C)
    ever since mankind^[a] was placed on the earth,