15. Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him.I would make supplication to my judge.
16. If I had called, and he had answered me,yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17. For he breaks me with a storm,and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18. He will not allow me to catch my breath,but fills me with bitterness.
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.