⁸ “Surely, you have spoken in my hearing,
    and I have heard the sound of your words.
⁹ You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression;
    I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.^(A)
10 Look, he finds occasions against me;
    he counts me as his enemy;^(B)
11 he puts my feet in the stocks
    and watches all my paths.’^(C)

¹² “But in this you are not right. I will answer you:
    God is greater than any mortal.
¹³ Why do you contend against him,
    saying, ‘He will answer none of my^[a] words’?^(D)