How much more dwellers in clay houses, whose foundation [is] in the dust? They are crushed like a moth.

Teach me, and I myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

How painful are {upright words}! But what does {your reproof} reprove?

{How long} will you not turn away from me? [Or] not leave me alone until I swallow my spit?

"{How long} will you say these [things], and the words of your mouth [be] a mighty wind?

"Truly I know that [it is] so, but how can a human being be just before God?

"[He is the one] who moves mountains, and they do not know [how], who overturns them in his anger.

{How much less} can I myself answer him? [How] can I choose my words with him,

"{How many} [are] my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my transgression and my sin.

{How much less} he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

"{How long} {will you hunt for words}? Consider, and afterward we shall speak.

"{How long} will you torment me and crush me with words?

"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,

"How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

"[Is] not God [in the] height of [the] heavens? But see how lofty are {the highest stars}.

"Indeed, how can a human being be righteous before God? And how will he who is born of a woman be pure?

{How much less} for a human being [who is] a maggot, and {a human} [who is] a worm?"

"How you have helped {one who has no power}! [How] you have assisted [the] arm {that has no strength}!

How you have advised {one who has no wisdom}! And [what] sound wisdom you have made known {in abundance}!

Look, these [are] the outer fringes of his ways, and {how faint is the word} [that] we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

for I do not know [how] {to flatter}, [else] my Maker would {soon} put an end to me.

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?