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

"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

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

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

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

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!