Then call thou, and I will answer: Or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: Thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment.
If I had called, and he had answered me; Yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Then would I speak, and not fear him; But it is not so with me.
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.
Oh that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, And that mine adversary had written a book.