Oh, that I had one to hear me! (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me!) Oh, that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
How much less when you say that you do not see him, that the case is before him, and you are waiting for him!
Behold, I cry out, ‘Violence!’ but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.
“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?
Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.
Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.
I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
“Let my enemy be as the wicked, and let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary.
I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.
“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; I would bind it on me as a crown;
“Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”
Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.