⁷ “Gird up your loins like a man;
    I will question you, and you declare to me.^(B)
8 Will you even put me in the wrong?
    Will you condemn me that you may be justified?^(C)
9 Have you an arm like God,
    and can you thunder with a voice like his?^(D)

¹⁰ “Deck yourself with majesty and dignity;
    clothe yourself with glory and splendor.^(E)
11 Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
    and look on all who are proud and humble them.^(F)
12 Look on all who are proud and bring them low;
    tread down the wicked where they stand.^(G)
13 Hide them all in the dust together;
    bind their faces in the world below.^[a]
14 Then I will also acknowledge to you
    that your own right hand can give you victory.^(H)

² “I know that you can do all things
    and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.^(A)
3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
    things too wonderful for me that I did not know.^(B)
4 ‘Hear, and I will speak;
    I will question you, and you declare to me.’^(C)
5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,
    but now my eye sees you;^(D)
6 therefore I despise myself
    and repent in dust and ashes.”^(E)