That he would maintain the right of a man with God, And of a son of man with his neighbour!
Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
My friends scorn me: But mine eye poureth out tears unto God;
For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me;) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!
Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago, and it is known that it is man: neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?