27 Though I say, ‘I will forget my complaint; I will change my expression, and I will rejoice,’
28 I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.
29 If I shall be declared guilty, why then should I labor in vain?
30 If I wash myself with soap, and I cleanse my hands with lye,
31 then you plunge me into the slime pit, and my clothes abhor me.
32 “For he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him, that we can come to trial together.
33 There is no arbiter between us that he might lay his hand on both of us.