1 - Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 - What ye 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 ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 - O that ye 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 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 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 thine 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 mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 - Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine 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 unto 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.