Job 31:34-36

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁴ because I stood in great fear of the multitude,
    and the contempt of families terrified me,
    so that I kept silence, and did not go out of doors—
³⁵ O that I had one to hear me!
    (Here is my signature! Let the Almighty^[a] answer me!)
    O that I had the indictment written by my adversary!
³⁶ Surely I would carry it on my shoulder;
    I would bind it on me like a crown;