“ Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“强辩的岂可与全能者争论吗？与神辩驳的可以回答这些吧！”

“强辩的岂可与全能者争论？与上帝辩驳的可以回答吧！”

“强辩的岂可与全能者争论？与神辩驳的可以回答吧！”

“强辩者岂可与全能者争论？与上帝辩驳的人请作出答复。”

“挑剔是非的，怎能与全能者争辩呢？责备神的，回答这个问题吧。”

強辯的豈可與全能者爭論嗎？與神辯駁的可以回答這些吧！

「強辯的豈可與全能者爭論？與上帝辯駁的可以回答吧！」

「強辯的豈可與全能者爭論？與神辯駁的可以回答吧！」

「強辯者豈可與全能者爭論？與上帝辯駁的人請作出答覆。」

“挑剔是非的，怎能與全能者爭辯呢？責備神的，回答這個問題吧。”

『好辯的哪可同全能者挑剔是非呢？譴責上帝的儘管回答呀。』

好駁折者、可與全能者爭論乎、與上帝辯者、尚其答之、

我全能之上帝也、爾昔欲與我辨、今何詞以對。

好辯者、欲與全能之主爭乎、與天主辯者、今可答之、

“ Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who accuses God answer him!”

“ I am the Mighty One. Will the man who argues with me correct me? Let him who brings charges against me answer me!”

“ Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

“ Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? You are God’s critic, but do you have the answers?”

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let him who argues with God give an answer.

“ Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty? Let him who rebukes God give an answer.”

“ Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? He who rebukes God, let him answer it.”

Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him? Let him who argues with God give an answer.

Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct[ him]? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.

“ Will the one who contends with the Almighty correct him? Let the person who accuses God give him an answer!”

“ For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

withdraw your hand far from me, and don’t let your terror make me afraid.Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

“ For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”“ Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Woe to him who strives with his Maker— a clay pot among the clay pots of the earth! Shall the clay ask him who fashions it,‘ What are you making?’ or your work,‘ He has no hands?’Woe to him who says to a father,‘ What have you become the father of?’ or to a mother,‘ What have you given birth to?’”Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel and his Maker says:“ You ask me about the things that are to come, concerning my sons, and you command me concerning the work of my hands!

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

“ What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,‘ The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.“ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

“ Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

“ As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

You will say then to me,“ Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it,“ Why did you make me like this?”Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,

He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

How long will you not look away from me, nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, so that I am a burden to myself?Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;then I would speak, and not fear him, for I am not so in myself.

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.

“ Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.I was at ease, and he broke me apart. Yes, he has taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces. He has also set me up for his target.His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs at me like a giant.I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids.Although there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure.“ Earth, don’t cover my blood. Let my cry have no place to rest.Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven. He who vouches for me is on high.My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,that he would maintain the right of a man with God, of a son of man with his neighbor!

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.