6. "Behold, I belong to God like you; I too have been formed out of the clay.
7. "Behold, no fear of me should terrify you, Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.
8. "Surely you have spoken in my hearing, And I have heard the sound of your words:
9. 'I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
10. 'Behold, He invents pretexts against me; He counts me as His enemy.
11. 'He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.'
12. "Behold, let me tell you, you are not right in this, For God is greater than man.
13. "Why do you complain against Him That He does not give an account of all His doings?
14. "Indeed God speaks once, Or twice, yet no one notices it.
15. "In a dream, a vision of the night, When sound sleep falls on men, While they slumber in their beds,
16. Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction,
17. That He may turn man aside from his conduct, And keep man from pride;
18. He keeps back his soul from the pit, And his life from passing over into Sheol.
19. "Man is also chastened with pain on his bed, And with unceasing complaint in his bones;