"If we begin to commune with thee, peradventure thou wilt be discontent; but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea, look about thee upon any of the holy men.

He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee.

How steadfast are the words of truth! And which of you can rebuke or reprove them?

I can see no remedy. I shall live no more. O spare me then, for my days are but vain.

As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?

and then shall I answer him without any fear. For as long as I am in such fearfulness, I can make no answer: And why?

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Who can make it clean, that cometh from an unclean thing? Nobody.

Thou reprovest with words, that are worth nothing; and speakest the things which can do no good!

What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?

He vanisheth as a dream, so that he can no more be found, and passeth away as a vision in the night.

Inasmuch then as God hath the highest power of all, who can teach him any knowledge?

"For though I go before, I find him not; If I come behind, I can get no knowledge of him;

If I go on the left side to ponder his works, I can not attain unto them. Again, if I go on the rightside, he hideth himself, that I cannot see him.

Thus can I not get out of darkness, the cloud hath so covered my face.

But how may a man compared unto God be justified? Or, how can he be clean, that is born of a woman?

He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.

This is now a short sum of his doings. But who is able sufficiently to rehearse his works? Who can perceive and understand the thunder of his power?"

The darkness shall once come to an end: he can seek out the ground of all things; the stones, the dark, and the shadow of death.

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.

He can spread out the clouds - a covering of his tabernacle -

when God sendeth out his voice: great things doth he, which we can not comprehend.

It is not we that can find out the Almighty: for in power, equity, and righteousness, he is higher than can be expressed.

He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come.

"Can he that striveth with the Almighty be at rest? Should not he which disputeth with God, give him an answer?"

Behold, he drinketh up whole rivers and feareth not: he thinketh that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

One is so joined to another, that no air can come in:

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.