¹⁸ “Listen, earth! Don’t cover my blood,
    for my outcry has no place to rest.
¹⁹ Even now, behold! I have a witness in heaven,
    my Advocate is on high.
²⁰ My friends mock me,
    while my eyes overflow with tears to God,
²¹ crying for him to arbitrate between this^[a] man and God;
    as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.