'Can a human being be more righteous than God, or can a man be more pure than his Maker?

{I refused} to touch [them]; they [are] like {food that will make me ill}.

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

"What [is] a human being that you make him great and that {you fix your mind on him},

And you will lie down, and {no one will make you afraid}; {and many will entreat your favor}.

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

He makes the nations great, then he destroys them; he expands the nations, then he guides them.

He strips [away] the insight of the heads of the earth's people, and he makes them wander in {a pathless wasteland}.

They grope [in] the dark {without} light, and he makes them stagger like a drunkard.

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

"Indeed, you write bitter things against me, and you make me reap the iniquities of my childhood.

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

[Is] it a pleasure to Shaddai if you are righteous, or a gain if you make your ways blameless?

"Domination and dread [are] with him who makes peace in his high heavens.

he makes [it] ready, and [the] righteous will wear [it], and [the] innocent will divide [the] silver.

You lift me up to [the] wind--you make me ride [it], and you toss me about [in] the storm.

Did not he [who] made me in the womb make them? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

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

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

[who] teaches us more than [the] animals of [the] earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

I will bring my knowledge from far away, and I will ascribe righteousness to my maker,

Do you make it leap like the locust? [The] majesty of its snorting [is] terrifying.

Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

{An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.