Do you, my friend, pass judgment on others? You have no excuse at all, whoever you are. For when you judge others and then do the same things which they do, you condemn yourself.

No, the LORD has told us what is good. What he requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God.

How can you be sure, Christian wife, that you will not save your husband? Or how can you be sure, Christian husband, that you will not save your wife?

You fool! Do you want to be shown that faith without actions is useless?

Why do you accuse God of never answering our complaints?

No one can tell God what to do or accuse him of doing evil.

Who are you to question my wisdom with your ignorant, empty words?

Now stand up straight and answer the questions I ask you.

(SEE 40:1)

I have already said more than I should.

Are you trying to prove that I am unjust--- to put me in the wrong and yourself in the right?

I know, LORD, that you are all-powerful; that you can do everything you want.

You told me to listen while you spoke and to try to answer your questions.

So I am ashamed of all I have said and repent in dust and ashes.

Don't I have the right to do as I wish with my own money? Or are you jealous because I am generous?' "

Are you going to keep on talking forever? Do you always have to have the last word?

Slaves are to submit themselves to their masters and please them in all things. They must not talk back to them

So then, where does that leave the wise? or the scholars? or the skillful debaters of this world? God has shown that this world's wisdom is foolishness!

and constant arguments from people whose minds do not function and who no longer have the truth. They think that religion is a way to become rich.

They turn everything upside down. Which is more important, the potter or the clay? Can something you have made say, "You didn't make me"? Or can it say, "You don't know what you are doing"?

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?

The LORD, the holy God of Israel, the one who shapes the future, says: "You have no right to question me about my children or to tell me what I ought to do!