God is so wise and powerful; no one can stand up against him.

That is the fate of those who shake their fists at God and defy the Almighty.

They are proud and rebellious; they stubbornly hold up their shields and rush to fight against God.

Are you as strong as I am? Can your voice thunder as loud as mine?

But the LORD says, "Can an ax claim to be greater than the one who uses it? Is a saw more important than the one who saws with it? A club doesn't lift up a person; a person lifts up a club."

Your enemies do not know that you will punish them. LORD, put them to shame and let them suffer; let them suffer the punishment you have prepared. Show them how much you love your people.

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.

I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came."

Does a clay pot dare argue with its maker, a pot that is like all the others? Does the clay ask the potter what he is doing? Does the pot complain that its maker has no skill?

At once the angel of the Lord struck Herod down, because he did not give honor to God. He was eaten by worms and died.

Or do we want to make the Lord jealous? Do we think that we are stronger than he?