12. Your platitudes are as valuable as ashes.Your defense is as fragile as a clay pot.
13. “Be silent now and leave me alone.Let me speak, and I will face the consequences.
14. Why should I put myself in mortal dangerand take my life in my own hands?
15. God might kill me, but I have no other hope.I am going to argue my case with him.
16. But this is what will save me—I am not godless.If I were, I could not stand before him.
17. “Listen closely to what I am about to say.Hear me out.