If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you contend against me.
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breath of life that I made.
For evils have encompassed me beyond number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head; my heart fails me.
Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
If he should set his heart to it and gather to himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh would perish together, and man would return to dust.
Why do you contend against him, saying, ‘He will answer none of man's words’?
Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary! Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown; I would give him an account of all my steps; like a prince I would approach him.
Oh, that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat! I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments. I would know what he would answer me and understand what he would say to me. Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No; he would pay attention to me. There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together. There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.
Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
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