Then call thou, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he hearkened unto my voice.
Then would I speak, and not fear him; For I am not so in myself.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) And that I had the indictment which mine adversary hath written!