How much less shall I answer him,\par\tab And choose out my words {\i to reason} with him?
If thou canst, answer thou me;\par\tab Set {\i thy words} in order before me, stand forth.
How much less man, that is a worm!\par\tab And the son of man, that is a worm!\par
There the upright might reason with him;\par\tab So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.
I would set my cause in order before him,\par\tab And fill my mouth with arguments.
If he be pleased to contend with him,\par\tab He cannot answer him one of a thousand.
How much more them that dwell in houses of clay,\par\tab Whose foundation is in the dust,\par\tab 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,\par\tab That we should come together in judgment.
Teach us what we shall say unto him;\par\tab {\i For} we cannot set {\i our speech} in order by reason of darkness.