| 1. | Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all. |
| 2. | According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you. |
| 3. | But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
| 4. | Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions. |
| 5. | And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.. |
| 6. | Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips. |
| 7. | Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him? |
| 8. | Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God? |
| 9. | Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed ? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings ? |
| 10. | He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person. |
| 11. | As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you. |
| 12. | Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay. |
| 13. | Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me. |
| 14. | Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands? |
| 15. | Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight. |
| 16. | And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence. |
| 17. | Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths. |
| 18. | If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. |
| 19. | Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace? |
| 20. | Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid: |
| 21. | Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me. |
| 22. | Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me. |
| 23. | How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences. |
| 24. | Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy? |
| 25. | Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw. |
| 26. | For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth. |
| 27. | Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet: |
| 28. | Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten. |
