Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou 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 judgment.
then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.