Holy Scripture
Job 9:14
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“How great am I that I should answer Him, and talk with Him in my words? As though he said in plain words, 'If that created being is unable to take thought of Him, which is not burthened by the flesh, in what spirit do I dispute about His judgments, who am straitened by the burthen of corruption?' But as God's words to…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14Oh then that he would hearken to me, or judge my cause.
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12If he would take away, who shall turn him back? Or who shall say to him, What hast thou done?
13For if he has turned away his anger, The whales under heaven have stooped under him.
— Job 9:14 —
15For though I be righteous, he will not hearken to me: I will entreat his judgment.
16And if I should call and he should not hearken, I cannot believe that he has listened to my voice.