Behold now, I have set my case in order. I know that I am righteous.

I would set my case in order before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the case of him whom I did not know.

I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.

If I have despised the case of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me,

How much less when thou say thou do not behold him. The case is before him, and thou wait for him!

And he called the name of the first, Jemimah, and the name of the second, Keziah, and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.