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

⁴ ‘Hear, and I will speak;
    I will question you, and you declare to me.’^(A)

³ Oh, that I knew where I might find him,
    that I might come even to his dwelling!^(A)
4 I would lay my case before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.^(B)

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