25. My days have become swifter than a runner – they have fled, they have not seen good.
26. They have passed by like swift ships, like an eagle swooping on its prey.
27. If I say, ‘Let me forget my complaint, let me put off my sad face, and let me smile,’
28. I shall be afraid of all my sufferings. I know that You do not hold me innocent.
29. If I am wrong, why should I labour in vain?
30. If I washed myself with snow water, and cleansed my hands with soap,
31. then You would plunge me into a ditch, and my garments shall abhor me.
32. For He is not a man as I am that I answer Him, and we come together into right-ruling.
33. There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
34. Let Him take His rod away from me, and let His dread frighten me.
35. Then I would speak and not fear Him, for I am not so within myself.