Pay attention, Job – listen to me; be silent, and I will speak.

If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

“Be patient with me a little longer and I will instruct you, for I still have words to speak on God’s behalf.

If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him.

“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

His anger has torn me and persecuted me; he has gnashed at me with his teeth; my adversary locks his eyes on me.

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

I will never declare that you three are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

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

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. Far be it from God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

(Who has confronted me that I should repay? Everything under heaven belongs to me!)

I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?