"For [He is] not a man, as I [am,] [That] I may answer Him, [And that] we should go to court together.

Let Him take His rod away from me, And do not let dread of Him terrify me.

But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress; Every hand of misery will come against him.

Oh, that I knew where I might find Him, [That] I might come to His seat!

I would present [my] case before Him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my mark. [Oh, that] the Almighty would answer me, [That] my Prosecutor had written a book!

And Jacob's anger was aroused against Rachel, and he said, "[Am] I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"

"So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God.

Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore [you] on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God.

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, [Who] are crushed before a moth?

Remember, I pray, that You have made me like clay. And will You turn me into dust again?

Your platitudes [are] proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you [are,] And to dust you shall return."

For we know that if our earthly house, [this] tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.