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| [1]Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it |
[1]Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them. |
| [2]What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you |
[2]And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you. |
| [3]Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God |
[3]Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. |
| [4]As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether |
[4]But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. |
| [5]Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men |
[5]But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end. |
| [6]Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes |
[6]But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips. |
| [7]Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause? |
[7]Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him? |
| [8]Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God |
[8]Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges. |
| [9]Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him |
[9]For it were well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things in your power ye should attach yourselves to him, |
| [10]He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person |
[10]he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons, |
| [11]Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde? Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you |
[11]shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you? |
| [12]Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye |
[12]And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay. |
| [13]Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse |
[13]Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger, |
| [14]Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes |
[14]while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
| [15]Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight |
[15]Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him. |
| [16]He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him |
[16]And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him. |
| [17]Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares |
[17]Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing. |
| [18]Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous |
[18]Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just. |
| [19]What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye |
[19]For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? |
| [20]Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee |
[20]But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face. |
| [21]Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde |
[21]Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me. |
| [22]Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere |
[22]Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer. |
| [23]How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences |
[23]How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are. |
| [24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie |
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy? |
| [25]Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble |
[25]Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze? |
| [26]For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth |
[26]for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth. |
| [27]Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete |
[27]And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels. |
| [28]And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten |
[28]I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment. |