²² Then call, and I will answer;
    or let me speak, and you reply to me.^(A)

¹⁵ You would call, and I would answer you;
    you would long for the work of your hands.

³ ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me that I did not know.^(A)
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
    I will question you, and you declare to me.’^(B)
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;^(C)
6 therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”^(D)

³ Gird up your loins like a man;
    I will question you, and you shall declare to me.^(A)

³² For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
    that we should come to trial together.^(A)

¹⁶ If I summoned him and he answered me,
    I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.