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

²⁷ But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!

¹⁹ How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

³ If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.

⁴ For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

⁵ But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against thee,

⁴ I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

⁷ There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

⁶ How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!

⁵ If thou canst, answer thou me; Set `thy words' in order before me, stand forth.