³⁵ Oh that I had one to hear me! (Behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); Let the accuser write my indictment!

²¹ Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.

²² Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

³ Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

⁴ I would set my cause in order before him, And fill my mouth with arguments.

⁵ I would know the words which he would answer me, And understand what he would tell me.

⁶ Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power? No, but he would listen to me.

⁷ There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

²³ "Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!

²⁴ That with an iron pen and lead They were engraved in the rock forever!

²⁵ Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

¹ > Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.

⁴ "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.

⁵ I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

¹ Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

² "Who is this who darkens counsel By words without knowledge?

³ Brace yourself like a man, For I will question you, then you answer me!

¹⁴ How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!

¹⁰ Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

¹¹ He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

⁶ Behold, I am toward God even as you are: I am also formed out of the clay.

²⁸ I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

⁷ "Let my enemy be as the wicked, Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.

¹¹ He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.

⁷ "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

³ "Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?

²⁴ Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

³ "Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.