- 1. ¶ Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
- 2. What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.
- 3. But I would speak to the Almighty, and with my reproof would I reason with God.
- 4. But you are forgers of lies; you are all healers of no value.
- 5. O that you would altogether keep silent! And it would serve you for wisdom.
- 6. Hear now my admonition, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
- 7. Will you speak wickedly against God? And talk deceitfully against him?
- 8. Will you respect his person? Will you contend with him?
- 9. Is it good for you that he should search you out? Or as you are judged by men, would you be judged by him?
- 10. He will surely reprove you, if you will show partiality.
- 11. His excellency shall seek vengeance of you, and his terror will fall upon you.
- 12. Remember that your power is from the earth, and your dwelling place is of clay.
- 13. ¶ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak also, and tell everything that has come upon me.
- 14. Why am I so afflicted, and why is my life exposed to danger?
- 15. Though he slay me, yet will I look for him; because my ways are before him.
- 16. He also shall be my Saviour; for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
- 17. Listen diligently to my speech, and I will relate my declaration in your presence.
- 18. Behold now, I am also pleading my cause; and I know that I am innocent.
- 19. Who is he that will contend with me? For now I will keep silent and be at rest.
- 20. Only two things do not let depart from me; then I will not turn aside from thee:
- 21. Do not withdraw thy help from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.
- 22. Then call thou me, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.
- 23. ¶ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgressions and my sins.
- 24. Wherefore dost thou hide thy face from me, and considerest me as thine enemy?
- 25. Wilt thou tread upon a fallen leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry grass in the air?
- 26. For thou decreest chastisement against me, and makest me remember the iniquities of my youth;
- 27. Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and watchest all my ways; thou seest the imprints of my feet.
- 28. Yet a man is like a worn-out waterskin, and a garment that is moth-eaten.
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