18:009:016 If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not
believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
18:009:017 For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds
without cause.
18:009:018 He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with
bitterness.
18:009:019 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment,
who shall set me a time to plead?
18:009:020 If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I
say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
18:009:021 Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would
despise my life.
18:009:022 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the
perfect and the wicked.
18:009:023 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of
the innocent.
18:009:024 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth
the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
18:009:025 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see
no good.