¹⁷ as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won't let them go.

⁴ God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

²³ Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn't give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

⁹ Woe to him who strives with his Maker--a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it, "What are you making?" or your work, "He has no hands?"

²⁹ Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

²³ Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.

²⁴ By your servants have you defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir trees of it; and I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field;

¹¹ Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.

¹⁵ Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews therewith? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? as if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

⁹ Or have you an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?

²⁵ Because he has stretched out his hand against God, And behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;

²⁶ He runs at him with a stiff neck, With the thick shields of his bucklers;

²² Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?