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| [1]Lo, mine eye hath seen all this: mine ear hath heard, and understand it. |
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| [2]I know also as much as you know: I am not inferior unto you. |
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| [3]But I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to dispute with God. |
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| [4]For indeed ye forge lies, and all you are physicians of no value. |
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| [5]Oh, that you would hold your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisdom! |
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| [6]Now hear my disputation, and give ear to the arguments of my lips. |
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| [7]Will ye speak wickedly for God's defense, and talk deceitfully for his cause? |
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| [8]Will ye accept his person? Or will ye contend for God? |
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| [9]Is it well that he should seek of you? Will you make a lie for him, as one lieth for a man? |
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| [10]He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person. |
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| [11]Shall not his excellency make you afraid? And his fear fall upon you? |
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| [12]Your memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies to bodies of clay. |
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| [13]Hold your tongues in my presence, that I may speak, and let come upon what will. |
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| [14]Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in mine hand? |
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| [15]Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprove my ways in his sight. |
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| [16]He shall be my salvation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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| [17]Hear diligently my words, and mark my talk. |
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| [18]Behold now: if I prepare me to judgment, I know that I shall be justified. |
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| [19]Who is he, that will plead with me? For if I now hold my tongue, I die. |
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| [20]But do not these two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
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| [21]Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not thy fear make me afraid. |
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| [22]Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
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| [23]How many are mine iniquities and sins? Show me my rebellion, and my sin. |
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| [24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy? |
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| [25]Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and from? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
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| [26]For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
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| [27]Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and makest the print thereof in the heels of my feet. |
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| [28]Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is moth eaten. |
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