¹³ Why do you strive against him, Because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

² "Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it."

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?"

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

³⁴ "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"

⁴ He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"

⁵ He said, "Who are you, Lord?" The Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.{TR adds "It's hard for you to kick against the goads."}

³⁹ But if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to be fighting against God!"

⁷ He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority.

¹⁵ Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'

³⁵ All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?

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

²⁴ I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

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

¹¹ God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this, That power belongs to God.

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;

¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, Choose my words to argue with him?

²⁹ The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.