Job 9:28-35 (New International Version)

 ²⁸ I still dread all my sufferings,
       for I know you will not hold me innocent.

 ²⁹ Since I am already found guilty,
       why should I struggle in vain?

 ³⁰ Even if I washed myself with soap ^[a]
       and my hands with washing soda,

 ³¹ you would plunge me into a slime pit
       so that even my clothes would detest me.

 ³² "He is not a man like me that I might answer him,
       that we might confront each other in court.

 ³³ If only there were someone to arbitrate between us,
       to lay his hand upon us both,

 ³⁴ someone to remove God's rod from me,
       so that his terror would frighten me no more.

 ³⁵ Then I would speak up without fear of him,
       but as it now stands with me, I cannot.