If one wished to contend with Him, He could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; Show me why You contend with me.
“Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”
For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
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; Therefore my heart fails me.
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults.
Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words.
Though I were righteous, my own mouth would condemn me; Though I were blameless, it would prove me perverse.
“How then can I answer Him, And choose my words to reason with Him?
Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further.”
For He need not further consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.