19. If I speak of power? Look, He is mighty. And if of right-ruling? Who sets me a time?
20. If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.
21. Am I perfect? Do I not know my own being? I despise my life!
22. It is all the same, therefore I say, ‘He destroys the perfect and the wrong.’
23. If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the trial of the innocent.
24. Earth has been given into the hand of the wrong. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
25. My days have become swifter than a runner – they have fled, they have not seen good.