"And now you're all just like them, aren't you? You see my terror and are terrified.

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Should he that hateth right indeed govern? and wilt thou condemn the All-just?

They're exalted momentarily, but then they are gone; they are humbled, just like all the others. They are cut down like heads of corn.

Indeed would you annul my justice and condemn me, just so you can claim that you're righteous?

"Look! Anyone's hope to capture him will prove itself false; anyone would be terrified just by looking at him.

Look! As far as God is concerned, I'm just like you are I, too, have been pinched off from a piece of clay.

"Are you saying that it's just for you to claim, "I'm more righteous than God?'

‘Can mankind be just before God?
Can a man be pure before his Maker?

“I am a joke to my friends,
The one who called on God and He answered him;
The just and blameless man is a joke.

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

He may prepare it, but the just will wear it
And the innocent will divide the silver.