Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
And yet, O that God had spoken! And doth open His lips with thee.
Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
Who giveth to me a hearing? lo, my mark. The Mighty One doth answer me, And a bill hath mine adversary written.
Is the striver with the Mighty instructed? The reprover of God, let him answer it.
Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
If he delight to strive with Him -- He doth not answer him one of a thousand.
Bring near your cause, saith Jehovah, Bring nigh your mighty ones, saith the king of Jacob.
Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones -- foundations of earth! For a strife `is' to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.