1 Lo, mine eye|strong="H5869" hath seen|strong="H7200" all this, mine ear|strong="H0241" hath heard|strong="H8085" and understood|strong="H0995" it.
2 What ye know|strong="H1847", the same do I know|strong="H3045" also: I am not inferior|strong="H5307" unto you.
3 Surely|strong="H0199" I would speak|strong="H1696" to the Almighty|strong="H7706", and I desire|strong="H2654" to reason|strong="H3198" with God|strong="H0410".
4 But|strong="H0199" ye are forgers|strong="H2950" of lies|strong="H8267", ye are all physicians|strong="H7495" of no value|strong="H0457".
5 O that|strong="H5414" ye would altogether|strong="H2790" hold your peace|strong="H2790"! and it should be your wisdom|strong="H2451".
6 Hear|strong="H8085" now my reasoning|strong="H8433", and hearken|strong="H7181" to the pleadings|strong="H7379" of my lips|strong="H8193".
7 Will ye speak|strong="H1696" wickedly|strong="H5766" for God|strong="H0410"? and talk|strong="H1696" deceitfully|strong="H7423" for him?
8 Will ye accept|strong="H5375" his person|strong="H6440"? will ye contend|strong="H7378" for God|strong="H0410"?
9 Is it good|strong="H2895" that he should search you out|strong="H2713"? or as one man|strong="H0582" mocketh|strong="H2048" another, do ye so mock|strong="H2048" him?
10 He will surely|strong="H3198" reprove|strong="H3198" you, if ye do secretly|strong="H5643" accept|strong="H5375" persons|strong="H6440".
11 Shall not his excellency|strong="H7613" make you afraid|strong="H1204"? and his dread|strong="H6343" fall|strong="H5307" upon you?
12 Your remembrances|strong="H2146" are like|strong="H4912" unto ashes|strong="H0665", your bodies|strong="H1354" to bodies|strong="H1354" of clay|strong="H2563".
13 Hold your peace|strong="H2790", let me alone, that I may speak|strong="H1696", and let come|strong="H5674" on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take|strong="H5375" my flesh|strong="H1320" in my teeth|strong="H8127", and put|strong="H7760" my life|strong="H5315" in mine hand|strong="H3709"?
15 Though|strong="H2005" he slay|strong="H6991" me, yet will I trust|strong="H3176" in him: but I will maintain|strong="H3198" mine own ways|strong="H1870" before|strong="H6440" him.
16 He also shall be my salvation|strong="H3444": for an hypocrite|strong="H2611" shall not come|strong="H0935" before|strong="H6440" him.
17 Hear|strong="H8085" diligently|strong="H8085" my speech|strong="H4405", and my declaration|strong="H0262" with your ears|strong="H0241".
18 Behold now, I have ordered|strong="H6186" my cause|strong="H4941"; I know|strong="H3045" that I shall be justified|strong="H6663".
19 Who is he that will plead|strong="H7378" with me? for now, if I hold my tongue|strong="H2790", I shall give up the ghost|strong="H1478".
20 Only do|strong="H6213" not two|strong="H8147" things unto me: then will I not hide|strong="H5641" myself from thee|strong="H6440".
21 Withdraw|strong="H7368" thine hand|strong="H3709" far|strong="H7368" from me: and let not thy dread|strong="H0367" make me afraid|strong="H1204".
22 Then call|strong="H7121" thou, and I will answer|strong="H6030": or let me speak|strong="H1696", and answer|strong="H7725" thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities|strong="H5771" and sins|strong="H2403"? make me to know|strong="H3045" my transgression|strong="H6588" and my sin|strong="H2403".
24 Wherefore hidest|strong="H5641" thou thy face|strong="H6440", and holdest|strong="H2803" me for thine enemy|strong="H0341"?
25 Wilt thou break|strong="H6206" a leaf|strong="H5929" driven to and fro|strong="H5086"? and wilt thou pursue|strong="H7291" the dry|strong="H3002" stubble|strong="H7179"?
26 For thou writest|strong="H3789" bitter things|strong="H4846" against me, and makest me to possess|strong="H3423" the iniquities|strong="H5771" of my youth|strong="H5271".
27 Thou puttest|strong="H7760" my feet|strong="H7272" also in the stocks|strong="H5465", and lookest narrowly|strong="H8104" unto all my paths|strong="H0734"; thou settest a print|strong="H2707" upon the heels|strong="H8328" of my feet|strong="H7272".
28 And he, as a rotten thing|strong="H7538", consumeth|strong="H1086", as a garment|strong="H0899" that is moth|strong="H6211" eaten|strong="H0398".