³ If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

² I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me.

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

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

²⁰ But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

¹⁵ For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

¹² For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

¹² Who has full knowledge of his errors? make me clean from secret evil.

¹⁴ If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

¹⁵ All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

¹³ Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

³⁵ If only God would give ear to me, and the Ruler of all would give me an answer! or if what he has against me had been put in writing!

³⁶ Truly I would take up the book in my hands; it would be to me as a crown;

³⁷ I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.

³ If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!

⁴ I would put my cause in order before him, and my mouth would be full of arguments.

⁵ I would see what his answers would be, and have knowledge of what he would say to me.

⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

³³ There is no one to give a decision between us, who might have control over us.

²⁰ Though I was in the right, he would say that I was in the wrong; I have done no evil; but he says that I am a sinner.