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| [1]Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. |
[1]Lo, mine eye hath seen all this: mine ear hath heard, and understand it. |
| [2]According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you. |
[2]I know also as much as you know: I am not inferior unto you. |
| [3]Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. |
[3]But I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to dispute with God. |
| [4]And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, |
[4]For indeed ye forge lies, and all you are physicians of no value. |
| [5]O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. |
[5]Oh, that you would hold your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisdom! |
| [6]Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, |
[6]Now hear my disputation, and give ear to the arguments of my lips. |
| [7]For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? |
[7]Will ye speak wickedly for God's defense, and talk deceitfully for his cause? |
| [8]His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? |
[8]Will ye accept his person? Or will ye contend for God? |
| [9]Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him? |
[9]Is it well that he should seek of you? Will you make a lie for him, as one lieth for a man? |
| [10]He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces. |
[10]He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept any person. |
| [11]Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you? |
[11]Shall not his excellency make you afraid? And his fear fall upon you? |
| [12]Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights. |
[12]Your memories may be compared unto ashes, and your bodies to bodies of clay. |
| [13]Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what? |
[13]Hold your tongues in my presence, that I may speak, and let come upon what will. |
| [14]Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand? |
[14]Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in mine hand? |
| [15]Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue. |
[15]Lo, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprove my ways in his sight. |
| [16]Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him. |
[16]He shall be my salvation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him. |
| [17]Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears. |
[17]Hear diligently my words, and mark my talk. |
| [18]Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous. |
[18]Behold now: if I prepare me to judgment, I know that I shall be justified. |
| [19]Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. |
[19]Who is he, that will plead with me? For if I now hold my tongue, I die. |
| [20]Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden. |
[20]But do not these two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
| [21]Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me. |
[21]Withdraw thine hand from me, and let not thy fear make me afraid. |
| [22]And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me. |
[22]Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. |
| [23]How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know. |
[23]How many are mine iniquities and sins? Show me my rebellion, and my sin. |
| [24]Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee? |
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy? |
| [25]A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue? |
[25]Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and from? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
| [26]For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth: |
[26]For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
| [27]And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print, |
[27]Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and makest the print thereof in the heels of my feet. |
| [28]And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. |
[28]Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is moth eaten. |