oh that I had one to hear me! (behold, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me); let the accuser write my indictment!
Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
*Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.
*Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
He has also kindled his wrath against me. He counts me among his adversaries.
*Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.
*Let my enemy be as the wicked. Let him who rises up against me be as the unrighteous.
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
*However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; and I would bind it to me as a crown.
Behold, I am toward God even as you are. I am also formed out of the clay.
How much less when you say you don't see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
*Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.*
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.