⁵ If you can answer me,
Set your words in order before me;
Take your stand.

³² If you have anything to say, answer me;
Speak, for I desire to justify you.
³³ If not, ^(A)listen to me;
^[a]Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

²¹ These things you have done, and I kept silent;
^(A)You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And ^(B)set them in order before your eyes.

¹⁴ Now he has not ^[a]directed his words against me;
So I will not answer him with your words.

¹² I paid close attention to you;
And surely not one of you convinced Job,
Or answered his words—

⁴ I would present my case before Him,
And fill my mouth with arguments.
⁵ I would know the words which He would answer me,
And understand what He would say to me.

¹⁸ See now, I have prepared my case,
I know that I shall be ^(A)vindicated.