⁷ “Though I cry, ‘Violence!’ I get no response;^(A)
    though I call for help,^(B) there is no justice.^(C)

⁸ Even when I call out or cry for help,^(A)
    he shuts out my prayer.^(B)

⁸ “Would you discredit my justice?^(A)
    Would you condemn me to justify yourself?^(B)

⁵ “Job says, ‘I am innocent,^(A)
    but God denies me justice.^(B)

³⁵ (“Oh, that I had someone to hear me!^(A)
    I sign now my defense—let the Almighty answer me;
    let my accuser^(B) put his indictment in writing.
³⁶ Surely I would wear it on my shoulder,^(C)
    I would put it on like a crown.^(D)

²⁰ “I cry out to you,^(A) God, but you do not answer;^(B)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.

³ If only I knew where to find him;
    if only I could go to his dwelling!^(A)
4 I would state my case^(B) before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.^(C)
5 I would find out what he would answer me,^(D)
    and consider what he would say to me.
⁶ Would he vigorously oppose me?^(E)
    No, he would not press charges against me.^(F)
7 There the upright^(G) can establish their innocence before him,^(H)
    and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.^(I)

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