“Behold, He snatches away; who can restrain or turn Him back?
Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me [and declare me guilty]!
Show me why You contend and argue and struggle with me.

If I call out to the pit (grave), ‘You are my father’;
And to the worm [that feeds on decay], ‘You are my mother and my sister [because I will soon be closest to you],’

“Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

“I would learn the words which He would answer,
And understand what He would say to me.

“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?