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| [1]Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
[1]Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them. |
| [2]What ye know, do I know also; I am not inferior unto you. |
[2]And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you. |
| [3]Notwithstanding I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
[3]Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. |
| [4]But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
[4]But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. |
| [5]Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it would be your wisdom. |
[5]But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end. |
| [6]Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
[6]But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips. |
| [7]Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? |
[7]Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him? |
| [8]Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God? |
[8]Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges. |
| [9]Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock 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 will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour. |
[10]he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons, |
| [11]Shall not His majesty terrify you, and His dread fall upon you? |
[11]shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you? |
| [12]Your memorials shall be like unto ashes, your eminences to eminences of clay. |
[12]And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay. |
| [13]Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
[13]Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger, |
| [14]Wherefore? I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
[14]while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
| [15]Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him; but I will argue my ways before Him. |
[15]Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him. |
| [16]This also shall be my salvation, that a hypocrite cannot come before Him. |
[16]And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him. |
| [17]Hear diligently my speech, and let my declaration be in your ears. |
[17]Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing. |
| [18]Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
[18]Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just. |
| [19]Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and die. |
[19]For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? |
| [20]Only do not two things unto me, then will I not hide myself from Thee: |
[20]But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face. |
| [21]Withdraw Thy hand far from me; and let not Thy terror make me afraid. |
[21]Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me. |
| [22]Then call Thou, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer Thou me. |
[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 mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
[23]How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are. |
| [24]Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and holdest me for Thine enemy? |
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy? |
| [25]Wilt Thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt Thou pursue the dry 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]That Thou shouldest write bitter things against me, and make me to inherit the iniquities 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 feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet; |
[27]And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels. |
| [28]Though I am like a wine-skin that consumeth, like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
[28]I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment. |