Respond, I beg you, without contention, and, speaking what is just, pass judgment.
And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.
He who is mocked by his friends as I am, will call upon God, and he will listen to him because it is the sincerity of the just that is being mocked.
If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.
Therefore, be converted, all of you, and approach, for I do not find in you any wisdom.
At least now you should understand that God has not afflicted me with a balanced judgment, though he has encompassed me with his scourges.
Truly, he knows my way and has tested me like gold that passes through fire.
For Job has said: "I am just, yet God has subverted my judgment.
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
And you shall be converted, and you will see the difference between the just and the impious, and between those who serve God and those who do not serve him.