How then can I answer him, choosing my words with him?
Answer me, if you can; set your words in order before me; take your stand.
how much less man, who is a maggot, and the son of man, who is a worm!”
There an upright man could argue with him, and I would be acquitted forever by my judge.
I would lay my case before him and fill my mouth with arguments.
For you say, ‘My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.’ But oh, that God would speak and open his lips to you,
If one wished to contend with him, one could not answer him once in a thousand times.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
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