¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

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

²⁵ Because what seems foolish in God is wiser than men; and what seems feeble in God is stronger than men.

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.

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

²² Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

¹³ And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.

¹¹ Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:

⁹ Then I will give praise to you, saying that your right hand is able to give you salvation.

¹⁰ See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

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⁵ If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.

⁶ 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 Fear of me will not overcome you, and my hand will not be hard on you.

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!