Job 9:14

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How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?

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Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”

There an upright man could reason with him, and I should be acquitted for ever by my judge.

I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.

If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth.

“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!

For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.