how much less confidence does he have in those who dwell in houses of clay; who were formed from a foundation in dust and can perish like a moth?

"Indeed, how blessed is the person whom God reproves! So never disrespect the discipline of the Almighty,

"How long will you keep talking like this? How long will you keep talking like a wind storm?

"Indeed, I'm fully aware that this is so, but how can a person become right with God?

So how am I to answer him, choosing what I am to say to him?

"How many of my iniquities and sins have you counted? Show me my transgression and sin.

then how much less is one who is abhorred and corrupted, such as a man who drinks injustice like water?"

"How long do you intend to keep torturing me and trying to break me by what you're saying?

"When you're thinking about asking yourselves, "How will we pursue him, since the root of the problem is with him?'

"How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction?

How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."

"Isn't God in heaven above? Consider how far away the stars are, and how lofty they are!

I know how he would answer me; I understand what he'll tell me.

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

How much less is man, who is only a maggot, or a man's children, who are only worms!"

"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!

Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we've heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"

God understands how to get there; he knows where they live.

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, can I focus my attention on a virgin?

what will I do when God stands up to act? When he asks the questions, how will I answer him?

since I don't know the first thing about how to flatter; and the one who made me would sweep me away as if I were nothing."

Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,

Do you know how God ordains them, and makes his lightning to flash throughout his clouds?

"I must look insignificant to you! How can I answer you? I'm speechless.