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¹ Behold, my eye has seen all this; my ear has heard and understood it.² As you know, I know, even I; I do not fall short of you.³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue with God.⁴ But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.⁵ Oh that you would stop speaking entirely; and it would be your wisdom!⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the arguments of my lips.⁷ Would you speak unrighteously for God and speak deceitfully for Him?⁸ Will you lift up His face, or will you contend for God?⁹ Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? Is it good that He should search you out?¹⁰ Reproving He will reprove you if you secretly lift up faces.¹¹ Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you?¹² Your remembered sayings are like ashes; surely your backs are backs of clay.

¹³ Be silent from me, that I may speak; and let what will, pass over me.¹⁴ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?¹⁵ Behold, He will cut me off; I will not wait, but I will justify my ways before His face.¹⁶ He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.¹⁷ Listen, hear my word, and let what I say be in your ears.¹⁸ Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I shall be justified.¹⁹ Who is he who will strive with me? For then I would be quiet and die.²⁰ Only two things do not do to me, O God , then I will not hide myself from Your face:²¹ Remove Your hand from me, and let not Your terror make me afraid.²² Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and reply to me.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgressions and my sin.²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and count me for Your enemy?²⁵ Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will you pursue the dry stubble?²⁶ For You write bitter things against me and make me inherit the sins of my youth.²⁷ You also put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; You set a limit on the soles of my feet.²⁸ And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment which a moth eats.