12. Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;your defenses are defenses of clay.
13. “Let me have silence, and I will speak,and let come on me what may.
14. Why should I take my flesh in my teethand put my life in my hand?
15. Though he slay me, I will hope in him;yet I will argue my ways to his face.
16. This will be my salvation,that the godless shall not come before him.
17. Keep listening to my words,and let my declaration be in your ears.
18. Behold, I have prepared my case;I know that I shall be in the right.