If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why thou dost contend against me.
Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of my words’?
For he has not appointed a time for any man to go before God in judgment.
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
I have spoken once, and I will not answer; twice, but I will proceed no further.”
How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
Though I am innocent, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.
For evils have encompassed me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, till I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
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?”
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
whenever our hearts condemn us; for God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.