Is it a little thing for you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, and brought you near to Himself to minister in the services of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the tabernacle to minister for them?

And He has brought you near and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you, and do you seek to be priests also?

Is it a little thing that you have brought us up to a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, [and] that you altogether rule over us?

And he said, Hear now, O house of David; is it a little thing for you to contend with men? And how do you contend against the Lord?

Yet notwithstanding you have not walked in their ways, neither have you done according to their iniquities within a little, but you have exceeded them in all your ways.

But to me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by a human court. Indeed, I do not even judge myself.