Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.
Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.
Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead: I also am formed out of the clay.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? He that reproveth God, let him answer it.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.