Shall the one who contends with the Almighty find fault? He who reproves God, let him testify.

Who has directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and what man, as a counselor, has taught Him?

With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the path of justice; and taught Him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to Him?

Woe to him who strives with the One who formed him, a potsherd among the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to the one who forms it, What are you making? Or your work, He has no hands?

For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?

For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn a righteous mighty one?

He is not partial to rulers, nor does He regard the rich more than the poor; for they are all the work of His hands.

Who is like Jehovah our God, who dwells on high,

who humbles Himself to behold the things that are in the heavens and in the earth!

If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for He who is higher than the highest watches; so there are those higher than they.

It is He who sits upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;

Who brings the rulers to nothing; He makes the judges of the earth as nothing.

Do you not know that we shall judge angels? To say nothing of things that pertain to this life?

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the Great Day;

And I saw an angel coming down from Heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

and he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should not lead astray the nations any more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while.

And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God. And books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, out of the things which were written in the books.

And Death and Hades were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.