If he wants to contend with him, he cannot answer him one [time] in a thousand.

"My inner self loathes my life; {I want to give vent to my complaint}; I want to speak out of [the] bitterness of my inner self.

{Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case?

I want to know [the] words [with which] he would answer me, and I want to understand what he would say to me.

Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.

Should he be told that I want to speak? Or did a man say that he would be communicated with?