¹⁰ But behold, God finds occasions against me and causes of alienation and indifference; He counts me as His enemy.

¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks; He [untrustingly] watches all my paths [you say].

¹² I reply to you, Behold, in this you are not just; God is superior to man.

¹⁷ That He may withdraw man from his purpose and cut off pride from him [disgusting him with his own disappointing self-sufficiency].

¹⁹ [God’s voice may be heard by man when] he is chastened with pain upon his bed and with continual strife in his bones or while all his bones are firmly set,

²³ [God’s voice may be heard] if there is for the hearer a messenger or an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him [how to be upright and in right standing with God],