Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
Yet I speak this way to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God,
For behold, my witness is in heaven, and my confidante is on high.
My friends are full of words; my eye rains tears upon God.
Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
And in the path of your judgments, O Lord, we have endured for you. Your name and your remembrance are the desire of the soul.
Truly, you are a hidden God, the God of Israel, the Savior."
"O Lord, if our iniquities have responded against us, let it be for the sake of your name. For our rebellions are many; we have sinned against you.
Therefore, this is because certain ones remain who are to enter into it, and those to whom it was announced first did not enter into it, because of unbelief.