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| [1]Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
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| [2]What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you. |
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| [3]Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
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| [4]But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
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| [5]Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom. |
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| [6]Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
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| [7]Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? |
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| [8]Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God? |
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| [9]Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him? |
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| [10]He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour. |
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| [11]Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you? |
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| [12]Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay. |
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| [13]Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
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| [14]Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
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| [15]Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him. |
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| [16]This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him. |
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| [17]Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears. |
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| [18]Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
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| [19]Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die. |
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| [20]Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee: |
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| [21]Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror 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? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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| [24]Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy? |
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| [25]Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry stubble? |
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| [26]That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit 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; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet; |
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| [28]Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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