For He is wise in mind, and mighty, and great: who has hardened himself against Him and endured?

For he has lifted his hands against the Lord, and he has hardened his neck against the Almighty Lord.

And he has run against Him with insolence, on the thickness of the back of his shield.

[ 40:4] Have you an arm like the Lord's? Or can you thunder with a voice like His?

Shall the ax glorify itself without him that chops with it? Or shall the saw lift itself up without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? But it shall not be so;

O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

Whom have you reproached and provoked? And against whom have you lifted up your voice? And have you not lifted up your eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Lebanon, and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses, and I entered into the height of the forest region;

And your wrath in which you have been enraged, and your rage has come up before Me; therefore I will put a hook in your nose, and a bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way which you came.

What excellent thing have I prepared as clay of the potter? Will the plowman plow the earth all day? Shall the clay say to the potter, What are you doing that you do not work, nor have hands? Shall the thing formed answer Him that formed it?

Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And becoming eaten by worms, he died.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?