Job

 2 “Are you so convinced that you are right that you would say,

‘I am more righteous than God’?+

 4 I will reply to you

And to your companions+ with you.

 5 Look up to heaven and see,

Observe the clouds,+ which are high above you.

 7 If you are righteous, what do you give him;

What does he receive from you?+

 8 Your wickedness affects only a human like yourself,

And your righteousness, a son of man.

 9 People cry out when under great oppression;

They cry for relief from the domination* of the powerful.+

10 But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Grand Maker,+

The one causing songs to be sung in the night?’+

11 He teaches us+ more than the beasts of the earth,+

And he makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens.

12 People cry out, but he does not answer,+

Because of the pride of the wicked.+

13 Surely God does not hear an empty cry;*+

The Almighty does not pay attention to it.

15 For he has not angrily called for an accounting;

Nor has he taken note of your extreme rashness.+

16 Job opens his mouth wide in vain;

He multiplies words without knowledge.”+