23. When disaster brings sudden death,he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?
25. “My days are swifter than a runner;they flee away; they see no good.
26. They go by like skiffs of reed,like an eagle swooping on the prey.
27. If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’
28. I become afraid of all my suffering,for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29. I shall be condemned;why then do I labor in vain?
30. If I wash myself with snowand cleanse my hands with lye,
31. yet you will plunge me into a pit,and my own clothes will abhor me.
32. For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,that we should come to trial together.