3. Will men be silent only for you? And when you have mocked others, will no one refute you?
4. For you said: "My word is pure, and I am clean in your sight."
5. Yet I wish that God would speak with you, and would open his lips to you,
6. so that he might reveal to you the secrets of wisdom, and how intricate his law is, and that you would understand how much less he requires of you than your iniquity deserves.
7. By chance, will you comprehend the footsteps of God and reach all the way to the perfection of the Almighty?
8. He is higher than heaven, and what will you do? He is deeper than hell, but how will you know?
9. His measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
10. If he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict him?
11. For he knows the vanity of men, and when he sees iniquity, does he not evaluate it?
12. A vain man is lifted up in arrogance, and he thinks that he is born free like a wild ass's colt.