Job 4:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ It remained standing,
    but I couldn’t recognize its appearance.
A form appeared before my eyes;
    At first there was^[a] silence, and then this voice:
¹⁷ ‘Can a mortal person^[b] be more righteous than God?
    Or can the purity of the valiant exceed that of his maker?’^[c]