¹³ Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

² Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?

²² Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

³⁴ For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

⁴ And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

⁵ And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

³⁹ But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.

⁷ And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

³⁵ And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

¹⁴ Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the LORD have spoken it, and will do it.

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD.

¹⁰ Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

¹¹ God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.

²⁵ For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

²⁶ He runneth upon him, even on his neck, upon the thick bosses of his bucklers:

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

²⁹ The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.