How much less would I answer Him, choose my words with Him?
If you are able, answer me, set yourself in order before me, take your stand.
how much less man, a maggot, and a son of man, a worm?”
There the upright might reason with Him, and I would go safe forever from my Judge.
I would present my case before Him, and fill my mouth with proofs.
If one wished to dispute with Him, he would not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
“For is it true: Elohim dwells on the earth? See, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens are unable to contain You, how much less this House which I have built!
For He is not a man as I am that I answer Him, and we come together into right-ruling.
Teach us what we should say to Him; we do not set in order because of darkness.
