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

²⁷ But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!

¹⁹ How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

³ If he is pleased to contend with him, He can't answer him one time in a thousand.

⁴ For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, I am clean in your eyes.'

⁵ But oh that God would speak, And open his lips against you,

⁴ I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

⁷ There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

⁶ How much less man, who is a worm! The son of man, who is a worm!"

⁵ If you can, answer me; Set your words in order before me, and stand forth.