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

² I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.

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

²⁰ because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

²⁰ But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, "Why did you make me like this?"

¹⁵ For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

¹⁶ For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.

¹² For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

¹⁴ If he set his heart on himself, If he gathered to himself his spirit and his breath;

¹⁵ All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.

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

³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!

³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; And I would bind it to me as a crown.

³⁷ I would declare to him the number of my steps. As a prince would I go near to him.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

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

⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

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

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.

³³ There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on us both.

²⁰ Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.