| 1 | Lo, mine eye has seen all this, mine ear has heard and understood it. |
| 2 | What you know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
| 3 | Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
| 4 | But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value. |
| 5 | O that you would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
| 6 | Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
| 7 | Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
| 8 | Will you accept his person? will you contend for God? |
| 9 | Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do you so mock him? |
| 10 | He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons. |
| 11 | Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
| 12 | Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
| 13 | Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
| 14 | Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? |
| 15 | Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. |
| 16 | He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. |
| 17 | Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. |
| 18 | Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. |
| 19 | Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. |
| 20 | Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
| 21 | Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. |
| 22 | Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me. |
| 23 | How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
| 24 | Wherefore hidest you thy face, and holdest me for your enemy? |
| 25 | Wilt you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble? |
| 26 | For you writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. |
| 27 | Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; you settest a print upon the heels of my feet. |
| 28 | And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. |
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