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¹ Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.² What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you.³ But I would speak to the Almighty, and with my reproof would I reason with God.⁴ But you are forgers of lies; you are all healers of no value.⁵ O that you would altogether keep silent! And it would serve you for wisdom.⁶ Hear now my admonition, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.⁷ Will you speak wickedly against God? And talk deceitfully against him?⁸ Will you respect his person? Will you contend with him?⁹ Is it good for you that he should search you out? Or as you are judged by men, would you be judged by him?¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if you will show partiality.¹¹ His excellency shall seek vengeance of you, and his terror will fall upon you.¹² Remember that your power is from the earth, and your dwelling place is of clay.

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak also, and tell everything that has come upon me.¹⁴ Why am I so afflicted, and why is my life exposed to danger?¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I look for him; because my ways are before him.¹⁶ He also shall be my Saviour; for a hypocrite shall not come before him.¹⁷ Listen diligently to my speech, and I will relate my declaration in your presence.¹⁸ Behold now, I am also pleading my cause; and I know that I am innocent.¹⁹ Who is he that will contend with me? For now I will keep silent and be at rest.²⁰ Only two things do not let depart from me; then I will not turn aside from thee:²¹ Do not withdraw thy help from me; and let not thy dread terrify me.²² Then call thou me, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer thou me.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgressions and my sins.²⁴ Wherefore dost thou hide thy face from me, and considerest me as thine enemy?²⁵ Wilt thou tread upon a fallen leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry grass in the air?²⁶ For thou decreest chastisement against me, and makest me remember the iniquities of my youth;²⁷ Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and watchest all my ways; thou seest the imprints of my feet.²⁸ Yet a man is like a worn-out waterskin, and a garment that is moth-eaten.