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.
32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,that we should come together in judgement.
33. There is no umpire between us,that might lay his hand on us both.
34. Let him take his rod away from me.Let his terror not make me afraid;