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| [1]Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it. |
[1]Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard them. |
| [2]According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you. |
[2]And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you. |
| [3]Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight. |
[3]Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will. |
| [4]And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you, |
[4]But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases. |
| [5]O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom. |
[5]But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end. |
| [6]Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend, |
[6]But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips. |
| [7]For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit? |
[7]Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him? |
| [8]His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? |
[8]Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges. |
| [9]Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at 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 doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces. |
[10]he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons, |
| [11]Doth not His excellency 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 remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights. |
[12]And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body like a body of clay. |
| [13]Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what? |
[13]Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from mine anger, |
| [14]Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand? |
[14]while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand. |
| [15]Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue. |
[15]Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him. |
| [16]Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him. |
[16]And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him. |
| [17]Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears. |
[17]Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing. |
| [18]Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous. |
[18]Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just. |
| [19]Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp. |
[19]For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire? |
| [20]Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden. |
[20]But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face. |
| [21]Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me. |
[21]Withhold thine hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me. |
| [22]And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I 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 iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know. |
[23]How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are. |
| [24]Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee? |
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy? |
| [25]A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue? |
[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]For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess 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]And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print, |
[27]And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels. |
| [28]And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him. |
[28]I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment. |