Job 16:21
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Oh, that a man might plead with God as he pleads with his neighbor!
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Whatever exists was named long ago, and what happens to a man is foreknown; but he cannot contend with one stronger than he.
Woe to him who quarrels with his Maker— one clay pot among many. Does the clay ask the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘He has no hands’?
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
Then call me, and I will answer, or let me speak, and You can reply.
Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.
(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.