For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.