¹⁹ Teach us what we shall tell him; For we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

³ But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

¹² For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

² "Surely I am the most ignorant man, And don't have a man's understanding.

³ I have not learned wisdom, Neither do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

⁴ Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name, if you know?

⁶ This knowledge is beyond me. It's lofty. I can't attain it.

²² I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

¹⁶ When I tried to understand this, It was too painful for me;

¹⁷ Until I entered God's sanctuary, And considered their latter end.

³ You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, Things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

² "Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

²⁰ Whence then comes wisdom? Where is the place of understanding?

²¹ Seeing it is hidden from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the sky.

¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

⁶ Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

³ "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.