6. Behold, God has made me, just as he also has made you, and I, likewise, have been formed of the same clay.
7. So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.
8. For you have spoken in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of your words, saying:
9. "I am clean and without sin; I am immaculate, and there is no iniquity in me.
10. Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.
11. He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways."
12. Therefore, it is for this reason that you have not been justified. For I tell you that God is greater than man.
13. Do you contend against him because he has not responded to all of your words?
14. God speaks once, and he does not repeat the same thing a second time.
15. Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,
16. then, he opens the ears of men, and, educating them, he teaches discipline,
17. so that he may divert a man from the things that he is doing, and may free him from pride,
18. rescuing his soul from corruption and his life from passing away by the sword.
19. Likewise, he rebukes by sorrow in bed, and he causes all of his bones to become weak.
20. Bread becomes abominable to him in his life, and, to his soul, the meat which before he desired.