30. Even if I washed myself with soapand my hands with cleansing powder,
31. you would plunge me into a slime pitso that even my clothes would detest me.
32. ‘He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,that we might confront each other in court.
33. If only there were someone to mediate between us,someone to bring us together,
34. someone to remove God’s rod from me,so that his terror would frighten me no more.
35. Then I would speak up without fear of him,but as it now stands with me, I cannot.