28. I am afraid of all my sorrows; I have da'as that Thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29. If I be wicked, why then labor I in hevel (vain)?
30. If I wash myself with sheleg (snow), and make my hands clean with lye,
31. Yet shalt Thou plunge me in the shachat (slime pit), and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
32. For He is not an ish, as I am, that I should answer Him, and we should come together in mishpat (in the court).
33. Neither is there any mochiach (arbitrator) between us, that might lay his yad upon us both.
34. Let Him take His shevet (rod) away from me, and let not His fear terrify me.
35. Then would I speak, and not fear Him; but it is not ken (so) with me.