6. Look, I am the same as you before God; I too am formed from clay.
7. See, no fear of me should terrify you, nor should my pressure be heavy on you.
8. “Indeed, you have said in my hearing, —I heard the sound of the words:
9. ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, without iniquity.
10. Yet, He has found fault with me; He considers me His enemy.
11. He puts my feet in the shackles; He watches closely all my paths.’
12. “But in this, you are not right— I answer you, for God is greater than a mortal.
13. Why do you contend against Him that He does not answer all His words.
14. Indeed, God speaks once, even twice, yet no one perceives it.
15. “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, as they slumber in bed,
16. Then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,
17. in order to turn a man from his conduct and to cover a person’s pride.
18. He spares his soul from the Pit and his life from perishing by the sword.
19. Or a person is chastened with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones,
20. so that his life loathes bread, and his soul, desirable food.