Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

to turn a person from his sin, and to cover a person’s pride.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

Therefore people fear him, for he does not regard all the wise in heart.”

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

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,

If the river rages, it is not disturbed, it is secure, though the Jordan should surge up to its mouth.

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?’

I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered – a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?