³² If you have anything to say, answer me;^(A)
    speak up, for I want to vindicate you.^(B)

⁵ I will never admit you are in the right;
    till I die, I will not deny my integrity.^(A)

⁵ Is not your wickedness great?
    Are not your sins^(A) endless?^(B)
6 You demanded security^(C) from your relatives for no reason;^(D)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.^(E)
7 You gave no water^(F) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,^(G)
8 though you were a powerful man, owning land^(H)—
    an honored man,^(I) living on it.^(J)
9 And you sent widows^(K) away empty-handed^(L)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.^(M)

²⁷ “I know full well what you are thinking,
    the schemes by which you would wrong me.

⁴ But you even undermine piety
    and hinder devotion to God.^(A)
5 Your sin^(B) prompts your mouth;^(C)
    you adopt the tongue of the crafty.^(D)