34. Have I feared the crowdor the contempt of the masses,so that I kept quiet and stayed indoors?
35. “If only someone would listen to me!Look, I will sign my name to my defense.Let the Almighty answer me.Let my accuser write out the charges against me.
36. I would face the accusation proudly.I would wear it like a crown.
37. For I would tell him exactly what I have done.I would come before him like a prince.
38. “If my land accuses meand all its furrows cry out together,
39. or if I have stolen its cropsor murdered its owners,
40. then let thistles grow on that land instead of wheat,and weeds instead of barley.”Job’s words are ended.