Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times.
I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.
If anyone can make a case against me, then I shall be silent and expire.
Why, then, do you make complaint against him that he gives no reply to their words?
For no one has God set a time to come before him in judgment.
Will one who argues with the Almighty be corrected? Let him who would instruct God give answer!
I have spoken once, I will not reply; twice, but I will do so no more.
How then could I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!
Though I were right, my own mouth might condemn me; were I innocent, it might put me in the wrong.
By them your servant is warned; obeying them brings much reward.
Lord, may you not withhold your compassion from me; May your mercy and your faithfulness continually protect me.
But who indeed are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Will what is made say to its maker, “Why have you created me so?”
If we say, “We are without sin,” we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything.