But I tell you, Job, you are wrong. God is greater than any human being.

Look at the sky! See how high the clouds are!

Do you help God by being so righteous? There is nothing God needs from you.

God is not like people, who lie; He is not a human who changes his mind. Whatever he promises, he does; He speaks, and it is done.

But the LORD said to him, "Pay no attention to how tall and handsome he is. I have rejected him, because I do not judge as people judge. They look at the outward appearance, but I look at the heart."

Everything that happens was already determined long ago, and we all know that you cannot argue with someone who is stronger than you.

Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?

Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pasture land, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?

But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, "Why did you make me like this?"

If our conscience condemns us, we know that God is greater than our conscience and that he knows everything.

I am ready to state my case, because I know I am in the right.

Let me ask for two things; agree to them, and I will not try to hide from you:

Speak first, O God, and I will answer. Or let me speak, and you answer me.

How I wish I knew where to find him, and knew how to go where he is.

I want to know what he would say and how he would answer me.

I am honest; I could reason with God; he would declare me innocent once and for all.

Don't put me, your servant, on trial; no one is innocent in your sight.