²⁷ If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,^(A)
    I will change my expression, and smile,’
²⁸ I still dread^(B) all my sufferings,
    for I know you will not hold me innocent.^(C)
29 Since I am already found guilty,
    why should I struggle in vain?^(D)
30 Even if I washed myself with soap^(E)
    and my hands^(F) with cleansing powder,^(G)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit^(H)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.^(I)