| 1 | Lo, my eye hath seen all this, my ear hath heard and understood it. |
| 2 | What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you. |
| 3 | Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
| 4 | But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
| 5 | O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom. |
| 6 | Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
| 7 | Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
| 8 | Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
| 9 | Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
| 10 | He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
| 11 | Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
| 12 | Your remembrances are like to 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 | Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand? |
| 15 | Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him. |
| 16 | He also shall be my salvation: for a 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 expire. |
| 20 | Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from thee. |
| 21 | Withdraw thy 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 thou me. |
| 23 | How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. |
| 24 | Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy? |
| 25 | Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? |
| 26 | For thou 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 lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. |
| 28 | And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten. |