12 Your wise sayings are worth no more than ashes.Your arguments are as weak as clay.
13 “Be quiet and let me speak.Then let things happen to me as they will.
14 I will put myself in dangerand take my life in my own hands.
15 He will kill me. I have no hope.But I still will defend my ways to his face.
16 This might really save me,because a wicked man would not be brave enough to come before him.
17 Listen carefully to what I say.Let your ears hear what I say.
18 See now, I have prepared my case.I know I will be proved right.