Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand.
Gird up thy loins like a man. I will ask thee, and answer thou me.
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
And if he should hear me when I call, I should not believe that he had heard my voice.
I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
But yet I will speak to the Almighty: and I desire to reason with God.
Who would grant me a hearer, that the Almighty may hear my desire; and that he himself that judgeth would write a book,