¹⁴ “How then can I dispute with him?
    How can I find words to argue with him?^(A)

⁵ Answer me^(A) then, if you can;
    stand up^(B) and argue your case before me.^(C)

⁶ how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(A) who is only a worm!”^(B)

⁷ There the upright^(A) can establish their innocence before him,^(B)
    and there I would be delivered forever from my judge.^(C)

⁴ I would state my case^(A) before him
    and fill my mouth with arguments.^(B)

⁴ You say to God, ‘My beliefs are flawless^(A)
    and I am pure^(B) in your sight.’
⁵ Oh, how I wish that God would speak,^(C)
    that he would open his lips against you

³ Though they wished to dispute with him,^(A)
    they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.^(B)

¹⁹ how much more those who live in houses of clay,^(A)
    whose foundations^(B) are in the dust,^(C)
    who are crushed^(D) more readily than a moth!^(E)