7I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
8Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.
9Cursed is he who has an argument with his Maker, the pot which has an argument with the Potter! Will the wet earth say to him who is working with it, What are you doing, that your work has nothing by which it may be gripped?
10Cursed is he who says to a father, To what are you giving life? or to a woman, What are you in birth-pains with?
11The Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, says, Will you put a question to me about the things which are to come, or will you give me orders about my sons, and the work of my hands?
12I have made the earth, forming man on it: by my hands the heavens have been stretched out, and all the stars put in their ordered places.
13I have sent him out to overcome the nations, and I will make all his ways straight: I will give him the work of building my town, and he will let my prisoners go free, without price or reward, says the Lord of armies.
