26. They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey.
27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,’
28. I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29. Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain?
30. Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder,
31. you would plunge me into a slime pit so 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.