However, if I were you, I would appeal to God
and would present my case to Him.

“Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spittle?

Then I would speak and not fear Him.
But that is not the case; I am on my own.

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But if only God would speak
and declare His case against you,

“But I wish to speak to the Almighty,
And I desire to argue with God.

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

In any case, I will take up my flesh in my teeth, and, my life, will I put in my hand:

Even though he kills me, I'll continue to hope in him. At least I'll be able to argue my case to his face!

“Behold now, I have prepared my case;
I know that I will be vindicated.

“Turn Your gaze from him that he may rest,
Until he fulfills his day like a hired man.

Surely mockers surround me
and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.

If you really intend to vaunt yourselves over me, and make my problems the basis of your case against me,

“If you say, ‘How shall we persecute him?’
And ‘What pretext for a case against him can we find?’

I would lay [my] case {before him}, and I would fill my mouth [with] arguments

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

For, in the case of all such, morning to them is the death-shade, For, to be recognised, is a death-shade terror.

I was a father to the needy,
and I examined the case of the stranger.

“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;
I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

A covenant, I solemnised for mine eyes, - How then could I gaze upon a virgin?

"If I have rejected my male or female slave's case when their complaint [was] against me,

And my heart is enticed in secret, And my hand doth kiss my mouth,

If only I had someone to hear my case!
Here is my signature; let the Almighty answer me.
Let my Opponent compose His indictment.

Refute me if you can.
Prepare your case against me; take your stand.

Would I lie about my case?
My wound is incurable,
though I am without transgression.”

Look at the heavens and see;
gaze at the clouds high above you.

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

He does not remove His gaze from the righteous,
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.

But now you are occupied with the case of the wicked; but justice and judgment will be served.

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].

"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not?

From there it spots its prey, its eyes gaze intently from a distance.

And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.