How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
How much less shall I answer him, And choose out my words to reason with him?
How much less shall I answer Him, choosing out my words to reason with Him
Yet I myself will answer him; I’ll choose my words in a contest with him.
what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?
What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
I would lay my case before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
There an upright person could reason with him, and I should be acquitted forever by my judge.
how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
Teach us what we shall say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of darkness.
how much more those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth.
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand.
For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.