24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the face of its judge— if it is not he, then who is it?
25. “And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.
26. They go by like papyrus skiffs, like an eagle swoops down on its prey.
27. Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,’
28. I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.
29. If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain?
30. If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
31. then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.
32. “For he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that we can come to trial together.