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| [1]Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
[1]Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it |
| [2]What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
[2]What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you |
| [3]Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
[3]Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God |
| [4]But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
[4]As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether |
| [5]O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
[5]Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men |
| [6]Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
[6]Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes |
| [7]Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
[7]Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause? |
| [8]Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
[8]Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God |
| [9]Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
[9]Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him |
| [10]He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
[10]He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person |
| [11]Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
[11]Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde? Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you |
| [12]Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
[12]Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye |
| [13]Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
[13]Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse |
| [14]Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
[14]Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes |
| [15]Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
[15]Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight |
| [16]He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
[16]He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him |
| [17]Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
[17]Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares |
| [18]Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
[18]Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous |
| [19]Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
[19]What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye |
| [20]Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
[20]Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee |
| [21]Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. |
[21]Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde |
| [22]Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
[22]Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere |
| [23]How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
[23]How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences |
| [24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? |
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie |
| [25]Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
[25]Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble |
| [26]For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
[26]For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth |
| [27]Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. |
[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 |
| [28]And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. |
[28]And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten |