^22 (A)Then call, and I will answer;
    or let me speak, and you reply to me.

¹⁵ You would ^(A)call, and I would answer you;
    you would long for the ^(B)work of your hands.

^3 (A)‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things ^(B)too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
⁴ ‘Hear, and I will speak;
    ^(C)I will question you, and you make it known to me.’
⁵ I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;
⁶ therefore I despise myself,
    and repent^[a] in ^(D)dust and ashes.”

^3 (A)Dress for action^[a] like a man;
    I will question you, and you make it known to me.

³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
    that we should ^(A)come to trial together.

¹⁶ If I summoned him and he answered me,
    I would not believe that he was listening to my voice.