^{6 Ref} See, I am the same as you are in the eyes of God; I was cut off from the same bit of wet earth.

^{7 Ref} Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

^{8 Ref} But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:

^{9 Ref} I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:

^{10 Ref} See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;

^{11 Ref} He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.

^{12 Ref} Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

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

^{14 Ref} For God gives his word in one way, even in two, and man is not conscious of it:

^{15 Ref} In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

^{16 Ref} Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;

^{17 Ref} In order that man may be turned from his evil works, and that pride may be taken away from him;

^{18 Ref} To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.