1. Then Job answered by saying:
2. Now again my conversation is in bitterness, and the force of my scourging weighs more heavily on me because of my mourning.
3. Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and that I may approach even to his throne?
4. I would place judgment before his eye, and my mouth would fill with criticism,
5. so that I may know the words that he will answer me and understand what he will say to me.
6. I do not want him to contend with me with much strength, nor to overwhelm me with the bulk of his greatness.