that he would maintain the right of a man with God, like that of a man with his neighbor.
Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and do thou reply to me.
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,
For when a few years have come I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter! Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’?
But who are you, a man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me thus?”