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

“So that you may be proved right when you speak
    and prevail when you judge.”^[a](C)

¹⁸ Your covenant with death will be annulled;
    your agreement with the realm of the dead will not stand.^(A)
When the overwhelming scourge sweeps by,^(B)
    you will be beaten down^(C) by it.

⁵ “Job says, ‘I am innocent,^(A)
    but God denies me justice.^(B)
6 Although I am right,
    I am considered a liar;^(C)
although I am guiltless,^(D)
    his arrow inflicts an incurable wound.’^(E)

³ Does it please you to oppress me,^(A)
    to spurn the work of your hands,^(B)
    while you smile on the plans of the wicked?^(C)