If he is pleased to contend with him, he can't answer him one time in a thousand.
I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my shalom and give up the spirit.
Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?
For he doesn't need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
*Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.*
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.*
How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, *Why did you make me like this?*
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.