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¹ Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it.² I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you.³ But I will speake to the Almightie, and I desire to dispute with God.⁴ For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.⁵ Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome!⁶ Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips.⁷ Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?⁸ Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?⁹ Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?¹⁰ He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person.¹¹ Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?¹² Your memories may be compared vnto ashes, and your bodyes to bodyes of clay.

¹³ Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will.¹⁴ Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my soule in mine hande?¹⁵ Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight.¹⁶ He shalbe my saluation also: for the hypocrite shall not come before him.¹⁷ Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke.¹⁸ Beholde nowe: if I prepare me to iudgement, I knowe that I shalbe iustified.¹⁹ Who is he, that will pleade with me? for if I nowe holde my tongue, I dye.²⁰ But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee.²¹ Withdrawe thine hande from me, and let not thy feare make me afraide.²² Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me.

²³ Howe many are mine iniquities & sinnes? shewe me my rebellion, and my sinne.²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?²⁵ Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble?²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth.²⁷ Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.²⁸ Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.