⁸ It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

¹² There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

⁹ Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

⁸ Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

⁵ Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Lord.

¹⁶ Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

⁹ Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?