¹³ Let no man say when he is tested, I am tested by God; for it is not possible for God to be tested by evil, and he himself puts no man to such a test:

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?

¹² And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

¹⁷ O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

¹² A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

¹³ See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

² Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;