¹³ Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

² Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.

⁹ Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'

²² do we arouse the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?

³⁴ for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

⁴ and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why me dost thou persecute?'

⁵ And he said, `Who art thou, Lord?' and the Lord said, `I am Jesus whom thou dost persecute; hard for thee at the pricks to kick;'

³⁹ and if it be of God, ye are not able to overthrow it, lest perhaps also ye be found fighting against God.'

⁷ and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority;

¹⁵ is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

³⁵ and all who are dwelling on the earth as nothing are reckoned, and according to his will He is doing among the forces of the heavens and those dwelling on the earth, and there is none that doth clap with his hand, and saith to Him, What hast Thou done?

¹⁴ Doth thy heart stand -- are thy hands strong, For the days that I am dealing with thee? I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done `it'.

²⁴ I have laid a snare for thee, And also -- thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou -- thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

¹⁰ Declaring from the beginning the latter end, And from of old that which hath not been done, Saying, `My counsel doth stand, And all My delight I do.'

¹¹ Once hath God spoken, twice I heard this, That `strength `is' with God.'

²⁵ For he stretched out against God his hand, And against the Mighty he maketh himself mighty.

²⁶ He runneth unto Him with a neck, With thick bosses of his shields.

¹⁴ How much less do I -- I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?

²⁹ `The things hidden `are' to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed `are' to us and to our sons -- to the age, to do all the words of this law.