If there is an angel beside him, one mediator out of a thousand, to tell a person what constitutes his uprightness;

Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?

Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

If he comes by and confines you and convenes a court, then who can prevent him?

Which of all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

When people are brought low and you say ‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast;

If even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not pure as far as he is concerned,

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

I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

Or a person is chastened by pain on his bed, and with the continual strife of his bones,

He redeemed my life from going down to the place of corruption, and my life sees the light!’

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps.

And further, when you say that his anger does not punish, and that he does not know transgression!

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.