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¹ Loe, mine eye hath seene all this, mine eare hath heard and vnderstood it. ² What yee know, the same doe I know also, I am not inferiour vnto you. ³ Surely I would speake to the Almighty, & I desire to reason with God. ⁴ But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value. ⁵ O that you would altogether hold your peace, & it should be your wisdome. ⁶ Heare now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. ⁷ Wil you speake wickedly for God? and talke deceitfully for him? ⁸ Will ye accept his person? Will yee contend for God? ⁹ Is it good that hee should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, doe ye so mocke him? ¹⁰ He will surely reprooue you, if yee doe secretly accept persons. ¹¹ Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his dread fall vpon you? ¹² Your remembrances are like vnto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone that I may speake, and let come on me what will. ¹⁴ Wherefore doe I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? ¹⁵ Though hee slay mee, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintaine mine owne wayes before him. ¹⁶ Hee also shall be my saluation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. ¹⁷ Heare diligently my speach, and my declaration with your eares. ¹⁸ Behold now, I haue ordered my cause, I know that I shall be iustified. ¹⁹ Who is hee that will plead with me? for now if I hold my tongue, I shall giue vp the ghost. ²⁰ Only doe not two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee. ²¹ Withdrawe thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make mee afraid. ²² Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou mee.

²³ How many are mine iniquities and sinnes? make mee to knowe my transgression, and my sinne. ²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest 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 mee, and makest me to possesse the iniquities of my youth. ²⁷ Thou puttest my feete also in the stockes, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes; thou settest a print vpon the heeles of my feete. ²⁸ And hee, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.