28. I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
29. Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
30. If I had been washed with snow-like waters, and my hands were shining like the cleanest thing,
31. yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
32. For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
33. There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.
34. Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.
35. I will speak and I will not fear him, for in fearfulness I am not able to respond.