³⁵ Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.

²¹ Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.

²² And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.

³ O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

⁴ I arrange before Him the cause, And my mouth fill `with' arguments.

⁵ I know the words He doth answer me, And understand what He saith to me.

⁶ In the abundance of power doth He strive with me? No! surely He putteth `it' in me.

⁷ There the upright doth reason with Him, And I escape for ever from my judge.

²³ Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?

²⁴ With a pen of iron and lead -- For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

²⁵ `Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

¹ By David. Judge me, O Jehovah, for I in mine integrity have walked, And in Jehovah I have trusted, I slide not.

⁴ Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.

⁵ Once I have spoken, and I answer not, And twice, and I add not.

¹ And Jehovah answereth Job out of the whirlwind, and saith: --

² Who `is' this -- darkening counsel, By words without knowledge?

³ Gird, I pray thee, as a man, thy loins, And I ask thee, and cause thou Me to know.

¹⁴ Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment `is' before Him, and stay for Him.

¹⁰ Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

¹¹ He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'

⁶ Lo, I `am', according to thy word, for God, From the clay I -- I also, have been formed.

²⁸ Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

⁷ As the wicked is my enemy, And my withstander as the perverse.

¹¹ And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

⁷ Lo, I cry out -- violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.

³ Place, I pray Thee, my pledge with Thee; Who is he that striketh hand with me?

²⁴ Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?

³ Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.