24. “Teach me and I, for my part, will be silent;explain to me how I have been mistaken.
25. How painful are honest words!But what does your reproof prove?
26. Do you intend to criticize mere words,and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
27. Yes, you would gamble for the fatherless,and auction off your friend.
28. “Now then, be good enough to look at me;and I will not lie to your face!
29. Relent, let there be no falsehood;reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!