Yet which of them has ever stood in the Lord’s inner circle so they could see and hear what he has to say? Which of them have ever paid attention or listened to what he has said?

When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he asked, “Who are these?”

Then he uttered this oracle: “O, who will survive when God does this!

The king said, “Find out whose son this boy is!”

He asked me, ‘Who are you?’ I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’

“If someone should attempt a word with you, will you be impatient? But who can refrain from speaking?

“Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

“Oh that my request would be realized, and that God would grant me what I long for!

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

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?’

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

If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom.

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

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

Can his armies be numbered? On whom does his light not rise?

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

Indeed, God is exalted in his power; who is a teacher like him?