¹³ Why dost thou strive against him, For that he giveth not account of any of his matters?

² Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

²² Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

⁴ and he fell upon the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

⁵ And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he `said', I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

³⁹ but if it is of God, ye will not be able to overthrow them; lest haply ye be found even to be fighting against God.

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own authority.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

¹⁴ Can thy heart endure, or can thy hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken it, and will do it.

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against Jehovah.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not `yet' done; saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure;

¹¹ God hath spoken once, Twice have I heard this, That power belongeth unto God.

²⁵ Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;

²⁶ He runneth upon him with a `stiff' neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words `to reason' with him?

²⁹ The secret things belong unto Jehovah our God; but the things that are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.