If one wished to dispute with Him, he would not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
I say to Eloah, ‘Do not declare me wrong, show me why You strive with me.
Who is he who would strive with me? For then I would keep silent and die.
Why have you complained against Him? Because He does not answer all His matters?
For He sets a man no stated time to appear before Ě
“Should a reprover contend with the Almighty? Let him who reproves Eloah answer it.”
Once I have spoken, but I have no answer – and twice, but I say no more.”
How much less would I answer Him, choose my words with Him?
If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.
Who discerns mistakes? Declare me innocent from those that are secret,
For evils without number have surrounded me; My crookednesses have overtaken me, And I have been unable to see; They became more than the hairs of my head; And my heart has failed me.
But who are you, O man, to talk back to Elohim? Shall that which is formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?”
If we say that we have no sin, we are misleading ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
that if our heart condemns us, Elohim is greater than our heart, and knows all.