Therefore listen to me, you men with heart: far be it from the Mighty God to do wickedness, and from the Almighty to do injustice.

Surely the Mighty God will never do wickedly, nor will the Almighty pervert justice.

that He would show you the secrets of wisdom! For they would double your wisdom. Know therefore that God forgets some of your iniquity.

And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have held back from the bending down in punishment of our iniquities, and have given us such deliverance as this,

TZADDI: Righteous are You, O Jehovah, and upright are Your judgments.

A bruised reed He shall not break, and a smoking wick He shall not quench; He shall bring forth justice unto truth.

O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us the shame of face, as it is this day to the men of Judah, and to those living in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are afar in all the lands where You have driven them for their unfaithfulness which they have trespassed against You.

To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him.

For He is not a man, as I am, that I may answer Him, and that we should come together in judgment.

Nor is there any mediator between us, who may lay his hand on us both.

Oh, that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleads for the son of his friend!

There the upright could reason with Him, and I would be delivered forever from my Judge.

Thus says Jehovah, What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me and have walked after vanity, and have become vain?

No, rather, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have you made me like this?