Then call, and I will answer: or let me speak, and you answer me.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of your hands.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that my adversary had written a book.
Gird up now your loins like a man; for I will demand of you, and you answer me.
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in trial.
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.