6. Behold, I am toward God as you are;I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
7. Behold, no fear of me need terrify you;my pressure will not be heavy upon you.
8. “Surely you have spoken in my ears,and I have heard the sound of your words.
9. You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression;I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
10. Behold, he finds occasions against me,he counts me as his enemy,
11. he puts my feet in the stocksand watches all my paths.’
12. “Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you,for God is greater than man.
13. Why do you contend against him,saying, ‘He will answer none of man’s words’?
14. For God speaks in one way, and in two, though man does not perceive it.
15. In a dream, in a vision of the night,when deep sleep falls on men,while they slumber on their beds,
16. then he opens the ears of menand terrifies them with warnings,
17. that he may turn man aside from his deedand conceal pride from a man;
18. he keeps back his soul from the pit,his life from perishing by the sword.
19. “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bedand with continual strife in his bones,