Will he then make repayment to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
Whatever the Lord pleases, he does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps.
If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
For since the message declared by angels proved to be reliable, and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
“Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?”
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
“Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
If the righteous is repaid on earth, how much more the wicked and the sinner!
Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Whatever is under the whole heaven is mine.
For according to the work of a man he will repay him, and according to his ways he will make it befall him.
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you, or the rock be removed out of its place?
Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his payment.
Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back? Who will say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
Men of understanding will say to me, and the wise man who hears me will say:
“And if they refuse to accept the cup from your hand to drink, then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: You must drink!
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.