22. “It is all one! That is why I say,‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’
23. If a scourge brings sudden death,he mocks at the despair of the innocent.
24. If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man,he covers the faces of its judges;if it is not he, then who is it?
25. “My days are swifter than a runner,they speed by without seeing happiness.
26. They glide by like reed boats,like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.
27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will change my expression and be cheerful,’
28. I dread all my sufferings,for I know that you do not hold me blameless.
29. If I am guilty,why then weary myself in vain?
30. If I wash myself with snow water,and make my hands clean with lye,
31. then you plunge me into a slimy pitand my own clothes abhor me.
32. For he is not a human being like I am,that I might answer him,that we might come together in judgment.
33. Nor is there an arbiter between us,who might lay his hand on us both,
34. who would take his rod away from meso that his terror would not make me afraid.