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.

<>I am not inferior unto you.

3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

<>I desire to reason with God.

4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

<>ye are forgers of lies, <>physicians of no value

5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

<>v. 5

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?

<>Is it good that he should search you out?, <>one man mocketh another, <>do ye so mock him?

10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

<>v. 10

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.

<>your bodies … bodies of clay

13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

<>Hold your peace, <>let come on me what will

14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

<>take my flesh in my teeth

15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

<>Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, <>trust in him, <>I will maintain mine own ways before him., <>maintain

16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

<>He also shall be my salvation

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.

<>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.

<>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.

<>v. 22

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

<>How many are mine iniquities and sins?, <>make me to know my transgression and my sin, <>transgression

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

<>Wherefore hidest thou thy face, <>Wherefore … 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.

<>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.

<>a garment that is moth eaten