5. “If you are able, answer me. Present your argument before me; take your stand.
6. Look, before God I am like you; I myself was also formed from clay.
7. Look, dread of me should not terrify you, and my hand will not be heavy upon you.
8. “Surely you have spoken in my ears, and I have heard the sound of your words:
9. ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me.
10. Look, he finds fault against me; he reckons me as his enemy;
11. he puts my feet in the block; he watches all my paths.’
12. “Look, in this you are not right—I will answer you: Indeed, God is greater than a human being.
13. Why do you contend against him, that he will not answer all a person’s words?
14. Indeed, God speaks in one way, even in two, yet someone does not perceive it.
15. “In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,
16. then he opens the ear of men, and he frightens them with a warning
17. to turn human beings aside from their deeds, and he keeps man from pride.
18. He spares his life from the pit and his life from passing over the river of death.