For He is not a man as I am that I answer Him, and we come together into right-ruling.
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?”
Whatever shall be, has already been named, and it is known that he is son of Aḏ
And do not enter into right-ruling with Your servant, For before You no one living is in the right.
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that if our heart condemns us, Elohim is greater than our heart, and knows all.
“See, he comes up like a lion from the Yardĕ
“Woe to him who strives with his Maker! (a potsherd with the potsherds of the earth). Does clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ Or your handiwork say, ‘He has no hands’?
See, in this you have not been righteous. Let me answer you: Eloah is greater than man!
But יהוה said to Shemu’ĕ
If one wished to dispute with Him, he would not answer Him one time out of a thousand.
How much less would I answer Him, choose my words with Him?
then You would plunge me into a ditch, and my garments shall abhor me.
If I speak of power? Look, He is mighty. And if of right-ruling? Who sets me a time?
See, no fear of me should alarm you, nor should pressure by me be heavy on you.