" How then can I answer Him, [And] choose my words [to reason] with Him?

For he stretches out his hand against God, And acts defiantly against the Almighty,

Running stubbornly against Him With his strong, embossed shield.

" Woe to him who strives with his Maker! [Let] the potsherd [strive] with the potsherds of the earth! Shall the clay say to him who forms it, 'What are you making?' Or shall your handiwork [say,] 'He has no hands'?

You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And you were not aware; You have been found and also caught, Because you have contended against the Lord.

"Can your heart endure, or can your hands remain strong, in the days when I shall deal with you? I, the LORD, have spoken, and will do [it.]

"but if it is of God, you cannot overthrow it -- lest you even be found to fight against God."

Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

And he said, "Who are You, Lord?" Then the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It [is] hard for you to kick against the goads."

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

"Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct [Him?] He who rebukes God, let him answer it."

"The secret [things belong] to the LORD our God, but those [things which are] revealed [belong] to us and to our children forever, that [we] may do all the words of this law.

God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power [belongs] to God.

Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times [things] that are not [yet] done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'

All the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And [among] the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, "What have You done?"

'Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good?'

And He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.

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