How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

How pleasing are upright words! but what force is there in your arguments?

How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

Truly, I see that it is so: and how is it possible for a man to get his right before God?

How much less may I give an answer to him, using the right words in argument with him?

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

How much less one who is disgusting and unclean, a man who takes in evil like water!

If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?

How long will it be before you have done talking? Get wisdom, and then we will say what is in our minds.

How long will you make my life bitter, crushing me with words?

If you say, How cruel we will be to him! because the root of sin is clearly in him:

How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?

How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

Is not God as high as heaven? and see the stars, how high they are!

How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!

See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?

How much less when you say that you do not see him; that the cause is before him, and you are waiting for him.

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?

Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?