Is it because of your piety that he rebukes you and goes to judgment with you?

I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

But if only God would speak, if only he would open his lips against you,

Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.