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For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Then I would speak without fear of him, for I am not so in myself.

although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.

For you say, 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes.'

But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called upon God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.

What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

"He has made me a byword of the peoples, and I am one before whom men spit.

Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call aloud, but there is no justice.

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree.

I am repulsive to my wife, loathsome to the sons of my own mother.

When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.

for I am hemmed in by darkness, and thick darkness covers my face.

"And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.

I am a brother of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

And Eli'hu the son of Bar'achel the Buzite answered: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.

For I am full of words, the spirit within me constrains me.

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was formed from a piece of clay.