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 labor 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 judgment.