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 will call, and I will answer You; You will long for the work of Your hands.
“Oh, that one would hear me! Behold, my desire is that the Almighty would answer me, and that the One who contends against me had written a book!
Prepare yourself like a man; for I will question you, and you shall answer Me.
If I called, and He answered me, I would not believe that He had listened to my voice.
“For He is not a man as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in judgment.
Then I would speak and not fear Him, but it is not so with me.