<p class="poetry">If I am guilty,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">why then<n id="2" /> weary myself<n id="3" /> in vain?<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;How much less,<n id="1" /> then, can I answer him<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and choose my words<n id="3" /> to argue<n id="4" /> with<n id="5" /> him!<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">Then<n id="1" /> would I speak and not fear him,p> <p class="poetry">but it is not so with me.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">What you know,<n id="1" /> I<n id="2" /> know also;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior<n id="3" /> to you!p>

<p class="poetry">I was a father<n id="1" /> to the needy,p> <p class="poetry">and I investigated the case of the person I did not know;p>

<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">&#8216;I am pure, without transgression;p> <p class="poetry">I am clean<n id="2" /> and have no iniquity.p>

<p class="poetry">I also have understanding<n id="1" /> as well as you;p> <p class="poetry">I am not inferior to you.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Who does not know such things as these?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I also could speak<n id="1" /> like you,p> <p class="poetry">if<n id="2" /> you were in my place;p> <p class="poetry">I could pile up<n id="3" /> words against youp> <p class="poetry">and I could shake my head at you.<n id="4" />p>