23. If he scourges, let him kill all at once, and not laugh at the punishment of the innocent.
24. Since the earth has been given into the hand of the impious, he covers the face of its judges; for if it is not him, then who is it?
25. My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.
26. They have passed by like ships carrying fruits, just like an eagle flying to food.
27. If I say: "By no means will I speak this way." I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
28. I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
29. Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
30. If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
31. yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
32. For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
33. There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.
34. Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.
35. I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.