how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

"Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent; explain to me how I have been mistaken.

How painful are honest words! But what does your reproof prove?

"How long will you speak these things, seeing that the words of your mouth are like a great wind?

"Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

"How much less, then, can I answer him and choose my words to argue with him!

How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.

how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

"How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.

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

If you say, 'How we will pursue him, since the root of the trouble is found in him!'

"How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"

"Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

How then can a human being be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot -- a son of man, who is only a worm!"

"How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the person who has no strength!

How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?

How much less, then, when you say that you do not perceive him, that the case is before him and you are waiting for him!

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

"Indeed, I am completely unworthy -- how could I reply to you? I put my hand over my mouth to silence myself.