I too will answer my part, I too will explain what I know.

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

I was eyes for the blind and feet for the lame;

I will reply to you, and to your friends with you.

I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you!

“Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may.

See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right.

Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.

Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me. I, even I, will explain what I know.’

Then I myself will acknowledge to you that your own right hand can save you.

“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.

whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

Is it your opinion that God should recompense it, because you reject this? But you must choose, and not I, so tell us what you know.