How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
If thou canst, answer thou me; Set thy words in order before me, stand forth.
How much less man, that is a worm! And the son of man, that is a worm!
There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.
If he be pleased to contend with him, He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!
But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
Teach us what we shall say unto him; For we cannot set our speech in order by reason of darkness.