¹⁴ How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

⁵ If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

⁶ How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

⁷ There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

⁴ I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

⁴ For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

⁵ But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against thee;

³ If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

¹⁹ How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

²⁷ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?