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| [1]Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. |
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| [2]What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you. |
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| [3]But I would speak to the Almighty, and with my reproof would I reason with God. |
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| [4]But you are forgers of lies; you are all healers of no value. |
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| [5]O that you would altogether keep silent! And it would serve you for wisdom. |
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| [6]Hear now my admonition, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
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| [7]Will you speak wickedly against God? And talk deceitfully against him? |
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| [8]Will you respect his person? Will you contend with him? |
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| [9]Is it good for you that he should search you out? Or as you are judged by men, would you be judged by him? |
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| [10]He will surely reprove you, if you will show partiality. |
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| [11]His excellency shall seek vengeance of you, and his terror will fall upon you. |
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| [12]Remember that your power is from the earth, and your dwelling place is of clay |
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| [13]Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak also, and tell everything that has come upon me. |
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| [14]Why am I so afflicted, and why is my life exposed to danger? |
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| [15]Though he slay me, yet will I look for him; because my ways are before him. |
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| [16]He also shall be my Saviour; for a hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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| [17]Listen diligently to my speech, and I will relate my declaration in your presence. |
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| [18]Behold now, I am also pleading my cause; and I know that I am innocent. |
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| [19]Who is he that will contend with me? For now I will keep silent and be at rest. |
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| [20]Only two things do not let depart from me; then I will not turn aside from thee: |
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| [21]Do not withdraw thy help from me; and let not thy dread terrify me. |
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| [22]Then call thou me, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me |
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| [23]How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgressions and my sins. |
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| [24]Wherefore dost thou hide thy face from me, and considerest me as thine enemy? |
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| [25]Wilt thou tread upon a fallen leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry grass in the air? |
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| [26]For thou decreest chastisement against me, and makest me remember the iniquities of my youth; |
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| [27]Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and watchest all my ways; thou seest the imprints of my feet. |
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| [28]Yet a man is like a worn-out waterskin, and a garment that is moth-eaten |
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