19. If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty!If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20. Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me.Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
21. I am blameless.I don’t respect myself.I despise my life.
22. “It is all the same.Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.
23. If the scourge kills suddenly,he will mock 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 not he, then who is it?
25. “Now my days are swifter than a runner.They flee away, they see no good.
26. They have passed away as the swift ships,as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
28. I am afraid of all my sorrows,I know that you will not hold me innocent.
29. I shall be condemned.Why then do I labour in vain?
30. If I wash myself with snow,and cleanse my hands with lye,
31. yet you will plunge me in the ditch.My own clothes shall abhor me.