5. If you can answer me,set your words in order before me; stand up.
6. Surely I am before God like you;I also am formed out of the clay.
7. Indeed, no dread of me will make you afraid,nor will my hand be heavy upon you.
8. “Surely you have spoken in my hearing,and I have heard the sound of your words, saying,
9. ‘I am clean, without transgression;I am innocent, nor is there iniquity in me.
10. Behold, He finds occasions against me,He counts me for His enemy;
11. He puts my feet in the stocks,He watches all my paths.’
12. “Look, in this you are not just.I will answer you, that God is greater than man.
13. Why do you strive against Him?For He does not give an accounting for any of His words.
14. For God speaks once, yes twice,yet man does not perceive it.
15. In a dream, in a vision of the night,when deep sleep falls upon men,in slumber on their beds,
16. then He opens the ears of men,and seals their instruction,
17. that He might turn aside man from his purpose,and conceal pride from man.
18. He keeps back his soul from the pit,and his life from perishing by the sword.
19. “He is also chastened with pain on his bed,and with strong pain in many of his bones,
20. so that his life abhors bread,and his soul dainty food.
21. His flesh is consumed away that it cannot be seen,and his bones that were not seen stick out.