What is that which has been? The very thing which shall be. And what is that which has been done? The very thing which shall be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

There is no memorial to the first things; neither to the things that have been last shall their memorial be with them that shall at the last [time].

That which has been is now; and whatever things [are appointed] to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.

[ 3:10] And the Lord God called Adam and said to him, Adam, where are you?

[ 3:18] And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat of it- of that you have eaten, cursed is the ground in your labors, in pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.

[ 3:20] In the sweat of your face shall you eat your bread until you return to the ground out of which you were taken, for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath.

Have You not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before You?

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

I have said, You are gods; and all [of you] children of the Most High.

But you die as men, and fall as one of the princes.

[As for] man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

For if he would enter into judgment with Him, [God] would not listen to him, so that he should answer to one of His charges of a thousand.

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

For You are not a man like me, with whom I could contend, that we might come together to judgment.

But you say, Why has He not heard every word of my cause?

[ 39:32] Will [anyone] pervert judgment with the Mighty One? And he that reproves God, let him answer it.

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?

As though one should say to [his] father, What will you beget me? And to his mother, What are you bringing forth?

Behold, he shall come up as a lion out of the midst of the Jordan to the place of Etham; for I will speedily drive them from it, and I will set the young men against her; for who is like Me? And who will withstand Me? And who [is] this shepherd, who shall confront Me?

You will say to me then, "Why does He still find fault? For who has [ever] resisted His will?"

But indeed, O man, who are you to [be] answering back against God? Surely the thing formed will not say to him who formed it, "Why did you made me like this?"