Doxology

⁸ Each of the four living creatures^(A) had six wings^(B) and was covered with eyes all around,^(C) even under its wings. Day and night^(D) they never stop saying:

²⁰ But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?^(A) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,^(B) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”^[a](C)

⁴ Not at all! Let God be true,^(A) and every human being a liar.^(B) As it is written:

⁵ But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly,^(D) what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.)^{(E) 6} Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?^{(F) 7} Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory,^(G) why am I still condemned as a sinner?”^(H)