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¹ Lo, all [this] haue I seene with mine eye, heard with mine eare, and vnderstande it.² What ye knowe, that same do I know also, neither am I inferior vnto you.³ Neuerthelesse, I talke with the almightie, and my desire is to commune with God.⁴ As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.⁵ Woulde God ye kept your tongue, for then might ye be taken for wise men.⁶ Now heare my reasoning, and ponder the argument of my lippes.⁷ Wyll you speake wickedlie for gods [defence] and talke deceitfully for his [cause?]⁸ Wyll ye accept the person of him? or wyll ye contende for God?⁹ Shall that helpe you when he calleth you to reckening? For as one man mocketh an other, so do ye mocke him.¹⁰ He shall punishe you, and reproue you, if ye do secretly accept any person.¹¹ Shall not his excellencie make you afrayde? Shall not his terrible feare fall vpon you?¹² Your remembraunce is lyke vnto a sparke, and your bodies lyke the claye.

¹³ Holde your tongues for my sake, that I also may speake, and my sorowe shalbe the lesse.¹⁴ Wherefore do I beare my fleshe in my teeth, and put my soule in myne handes?¹⁵ Lo, though he slay me, yet wyl I trust in him: but I wyll reproue myne owne wayes in his sight.¹⁶ He shalbe my saluation: for there may no hypocrite come before him.¹⁷ Heare diligently my wordes, and ponder my sayinges with your eares.¹⁸ Beholde, now haue I prepared my iudgement, and knowe that I shalbe founde righteous.¹⁹ What is he that wyll go to lawe with me? if I now holde my tongue I dye.²⁰ Neuerthelesse, graunt me two thinges, and then wyll I not hide my selfe from thee:²¹ Withdrawe thyne hande from me, and let not the fearefull dreade of thee make me afrayde.²² Then call, and I wyll aunswere: or let me speake, and geue me then an aunswere.

²³ How many are my misdeedes and sinnes? let me knowe my transgressions and offences.²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thyne enemie?²⁵ Wylt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro, and wilt thou pursue the drye stubble?²⁶ For thou layest sharply to my charge, and punishest me for the sinnes of my youth.²⁷ Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in the heeles of my feete:²⁸ And I as a rotten thing do consume away, as a garment that is moth eaten.