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Though I were righteous, yet I wouldn’t answer him. I would make supplication to my judge.
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The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
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He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.
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Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
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be afraid of the sword, for wrath brings the punishments of the sword, that you may know there is a judgment.”
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“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
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Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?
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You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
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There the upright might reason with him, so I should be delivered forever from my judge.
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For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;
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this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.
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For he doesn’t need to consider a man further, that he should go before God in judgment.
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“But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.
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For by these he judges the people. He gives food in abundance.
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Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?