“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

“But these things you have concealed in your heart; I know that this is with you:

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

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

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

I was a father to the needy, and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;

I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

“I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted;

“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?