1Lo, mine eye5869 hath seen7200 all this, mine ear241 hath heard8085 and understood995 it.
2What ye know1847, the same do I know3045 also: I am not inferior5307 unto you.
3Surely199 I would speak1696 to the Almighty7706, and I desire2654 to reason3198 with God410.
4But199 ye are forgers2950 of lies8267, ye are all physicians7495 of no value457.
5O that5414 ye would altogether2790 hold your peace2790! and it should be your wisdom2451.
6Hear8085 now my reasoning8433, and hearken7181 to the pleadings7379 of my lips8193.
7Will ye speak1696 wickedly5766 for God410? and talk1696 deceitfully7423 for him?
8Will ye accept5375 his person6440? will ye contend7378 for God410?
9Is it good2895 that he should search you out2713? or as one man582 mocketh2048 another, do ye so mock2048 him?
10He will surely3198 reprove3198 you, if ye do secretly5643 accept5375 persons6440.
11Shall not his excellency7613 make you afraid1204? and his dread6343 fall5307 upon you?
12Your remembrances2146 are like4912 unto ashes665, your bodies1354 to bodies1354 of clay2563.
13Hold your peace2790, let me alone, that I may speak1696, and let come5674 on me what will.
14Wherefore do I take5375 my flesh1320 in my teeth8127, and put7760 my life5315 in mine hand3709?
15Though2005 he slay6991 me, yet will I trust3176 in him: but I will maintain3198 mine own ways1870 before6440 him.
16He also shall be my salvation3444: for an hypocrite2611 shall not come935 before6440 him.
17Hear8085 diligently8085 my speech4405, and my declaration262 with your ears241.
18Behold now, I have ordered6186 my cause4941; I know3045 that I shall be justified6663.
19Who is he that will plead7378 with me? for now, if I hold my tongue2790, I shall give up the ghost1478.
20Only do6213 not two8147 things unto me: then will I not hide5641 myself from thee6440.
21Withdraw7368 thine hand3709 far7368 from me: and let not thy dread367 make me afraid1204.
22Then call7121 thou, and I will answer6030: or let me speak1696, and answer7725 thou me.
23How many are mine iniquities5771 and sins2403? make me to know3045 my transgression6588 and my sin2403.
24Wherefore hidest5641 thou thy face6440, and holdest2803 me for thine enemy341?
25Wilt thou break6206 a leaf5929 driven to and fro5086? and wilt thou pursue7291 the dry3002 stubble7179?
26For thou writest3789 bitter things4846 against me, and makest me to possess3423 the iniquities5771 of my youth5271.
27Thou puttest7760 my feet7272 also in the stocks5465, and lookest narrowly8104 unto all my paths734; thou settest a print2707 upon the heels8328 of my feet7272.
28And he, as a rotten thing7538, consumeth1086, as a garment899 that is moth6211 eaten398.