22. One thing there is that I have spoken, both the innocent and the wicked he consumeth.
23. If he scourge, let him kill at once, and not laugh at the pains of the innocent.
24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?
25. My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
26. They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
27. If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow.
28. I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
29. But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?
30. If I be washed as it were with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:
31. Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
32. For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
33. There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
34. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
35. I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.