Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

If we venture to converse with you, will you be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Can that which is tasteless be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? can the reeds grow without water?

Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What do you?

You know that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of your hand.

If I am wicked, woe unto me; and if I am righteous, yet can I not lift up my head. I am full of disgrace; therefore see my affliction;

Can you by searching find out God? can you find out the limits of the Almighty?

It is as high as heaven; what can you do? deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

If he cuts off, and shuts up, or gathers together, then who can hinder him?

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches with which he can do no good?

Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.

And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?

But he is of one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desires, even that he does.

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

If you can answer me, set your words in order before me, stand up.

When he gives quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hides his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the thunder of his tabernacle?

And now men can not look on the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passes, and clears them.

Can you bind the cluster of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Can you bring forth Mazzaroth in its season? or can you guide Arcturus with its children?

Know you the ordinances of heaven? can you set their dominion in the earth?

Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover you?

Can you send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto you, Here we are?

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? or who can pour out the water skins of heaven,

Know you the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or can you mark when the hinds do calve?

Can you number the months that they fulfill? or know you the time when they bring forth?

Can you bind the wild ox with ropes in the furrow? or will he plow the valleys behind you?

Can you make him afraid like a grasshopper? the majesty of his snorting is terrible.

Have you an arm like God? or can you thunder with a voice like him?

Then will I also confess unto you that your own right hand can save you.

He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Can you draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which you let down?

Can you put a rope in his nose? or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Can you fill his skin with harpoons? or his head with fish spears?

Who can remove the face of his garment? or who can approach him with a double bridle?

Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible all around.

One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

I know that you can do everything, and that no thought can be withheld from you.