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[1]Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
[2]What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
[3]But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with the Mighty God.
[4]But you smear lies; you are all worthless physicians.
[5]O that you would be silent and stop talking, and it would be your wisdom!
[6]Now listen to my arguments, and pay attention to the complaint of my lips.
[7]Will you speak unjustly for the Mighty God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
[8]Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for the Mighty God?
[9]Will it be well when He searches you out? Or do you mock Him as one mocks a man?
[10]He will surely rebuke you if you secretly show partiality.
[11]Will not His loftiness make you afraid, and the dread of Him fall upon you?
[12]Your remembered proverbs are worthless; your backs are backs of clay.
[13]Keep quiet, let me be, that I may speak; then let pass over me what will!
[14]Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?
[15]Though He slay me, yet will I wait for Him; but I will prove my own ways before Him.
[16]He also is my salvation, for a hypocrite can not come before Him.
[17]Listen and pay attention to my speech; to my declaration with your ears.
[18]Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.
[19]Who is he who will contend with me? For if I am silent, I will die.
[20]Only two things do not do to me, O God, then I will not hide myself from Your face:
[21]Remove Your hand far from me, and let not the dread of You make me afraid.
[22]Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and You respond to me.
[23]How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
[24]Why do You hide Your face, and regard me as Your enemy?
[25]Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? And will You pursue dry stubble?
[26]For You write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
[27]You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet;
[28]worn out like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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