^{2 Ref} Get your strength together like a man of war: I will put questions to you, and you will give me the answers.

³ Will you even make my right of no value? will you say that I am wrong in order to make clear that you are right?

^{4 Ref} Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

^{5 Ref} Put on the ornaments of your pride; be clothed with glory and power:

^{6 Ref} Let your wrath be overflowing; let your eyes see all the sons of pride, and make them low.

^{7 Ref} Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.

^{8 Ref} Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.