13. God will not withdraw his anger, and under him those who help, unto pride are bent over.
14. How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him?
15. Who even though I am righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.
16. Who if I were to invoke him, and he answered me; yet I would not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
17. For he has broken me with a tempest and has multiplied my wounds without cause.
18. He will not suffer me to take my breath but has filled me with bitterness.
19. If we were to speak of his strength, he is certainly strong; and if of his judgment, who shall cause us to meet?
20. If I justify myself, my own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, he shall prove me perverse.
21. If I say I am imperfect, I know not my soul; I would condemn my life.
22. One thing remains, that I say, He consumes the perfect and the wicked.
23. If it is the scourge, it slays suddenly, and it does not laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he who does this then, who is it and where is he?