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| [1]Lo, my eye hath seen all this, my ear hath heard and understood it. |
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| [2]What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you. |
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| [3]Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
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| [4]But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
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| [5]O 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 wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
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| [8]Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
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| [9]Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
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| [10]He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
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| [11]Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
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| [12]Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies 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]Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? |
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| [15]Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him. |
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| [16]He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him. |
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| [17]Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with 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 plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire. |
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| [20]Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
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| [21]Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread 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 my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
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| [24]Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy? |
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| [25]Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? 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 to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. |
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| [28]And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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