6. I am just like you before God;I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.
7. Fear of me should not terrify you;the pressure I exert against you will be light.
8. Surely you have spoken in my hearing,and I have heard these very words:
9. “I am pure, without transgression;I am clean and have no guilt.
10. But He finds reasons to oppose me;He regards me as His enemy.
11. He puts my feet in the stocks;He stands watch over all my paths.”
12. But I tell you that you are wrong in this matter,since God is greater than man.
13. Why do you take Him to courtfor not answering anything a person asks?
14. For God speaks time and again,but a person may not notice it.
15. In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber on their beds,
16. He uncovers their ears at that timeand terrifies them with warnings,
17. in order to turn a person from his actionsand suppress his pride.
18. God spares his soul from the Pit, his life from crossing the river of death.
19. A person may be disciplined on his bed with painand constant distress in his bones,
20. so that he detests bread,and his soul despises his favorite food.
21. His flesh wastes away to nothing, and his unseen bones stick out.