3. Should thy fictions make men hold their peace? and shouldest thou mock, and no one make thee ashamed?
4. For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.
5. But oh that +God would speak, and open his lips against thee;
6. And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!
7. Canst thou by searching find out +God canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?
8. It is as the heights of heaven; what wilt thou do? deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?
9. The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
10. If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
11. For he knoweth vain men, and seeth wickedness when man doth not consider it;
12. Yet a senseless man will make bold, though man be born like the foal of a wild ass.
13. If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,
14. If thou put far away the iniquity which is in thy hand, and let not wrong dwell in thy tents;