³³ By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused -- That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.

⁶ All that Jehovah pleased He hath done, In the heavens and in earth, In the seas and all deep places,

³² If there are words -- answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.

²⁶ greater wealth having reckoned the reproach of the Christ than the treasures in Egypt, for he did look to the recompense of reward;

² for if the word being spoken through messengers did become stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience did receive a just recompense,

⁶ since `it is' a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you -- trouble,

⁷ and to you who are troubled -- rest with us in the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with messengers of his power,

³⁵ or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

²⁰ nay, but, O man, who art thou that art answering again to God? shall the thing formed say to Him who did form `it', Why me didst thou make thus?

¹² that These, the last, wrought one hour, and thou didst make them equal to us, who were bearing the burden of the day -- and the heat.

¹³ `And he answering said to one of them, Comrade, I do no unrighteousness to thee; for a denary didst not thou agree with me?

¹⁴ take that which is thine, and go; and I will to give to this, the last, also as to thee;

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

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?'

³¹ Lo, the righteous in the earth is recompensed, Surely also the wicked and the sinner!

³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

¹¹ Who hath brought before Me and I repay? Under the whole heavens it `is' mine.

¹¹ For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.

⁵ If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

⁴ (He is tearing himself in his anger.) For thy sake is earth forsaken? And removed is a rock from its place?

³¹ Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

¹² Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?'