Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?

So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

They were saying to God, ‘Turn away from us,’ and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’

“If this is not so, who can prove me a liar and reduce my words to nothing?”

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God.”