¹⁰ That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

¹⁵ Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

⁹ Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?

¹⁰ Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?

² Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

¹⁹ But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

¹⁹ See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?

⁹ That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

¹⁰ Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.

¹¹ There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

⁶ I said, You are gods; all of you are the sons of the Most High:

⁷ But you will come to death like men, falling like one of the rulers of the earth.

⁶ Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

¹³ Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

¹ As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

² He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

⁴ If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

⁴ He is wise in heart and great in strength: who ever made his face hard against him, and any good came of it?

¹⁷ And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.

¹⁸ Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

¹⁹ With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

⁹ And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?