13. “God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
14. How much less shall I answer him, And choose my words to argue with him?
15. Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
16. If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.
17. For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.
18. He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.
19. If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
20. Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.
21. I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.
22. “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.