when I said, ‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?

Can you send out lightning bolts, and they go? Will they say to you, ‘Here we are’?

“If only I had someone to hear me! Here is my signature – let the Almighty answer me! If only I had an indictment that my accuser had written.

See now, I have opened my mouth; my tongue in my mouth has spoken.

The deep says, ‘It is not with me.’ And the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

This is the portion of the wicked man allotted by God, the inheritance that evildoers receive from the Almighty.

So do not say, ‘We have found wisdom! God will refute him, not man!’

If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’