22. Why must you persecute me as God does?Haven't you tormented me enough?
23. How I wish that someone would remember my wordsand record them in a book!
24. Or with a chisel carve my words in stoneand write them so that they would last for ever.
25. But I know there is someone in heavenwho will come at last to my defence.
26. Even after my skin is eaten by disease,while still in this body I will see God.
27. I will see him with my own eyes,and he will not be a stranger.My courage failed because you said,
28. “How can we torment him?”You looked for some excuse to attack me.