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¹ Lo, all this haue I sene with myne eye, herde with myne eare, & vnderstonde it.² Loke what ye knowe, that same do I knowe also, nether am I inferior vnto you.³ Neuerthelesse I am purposed to talke with the Allmightie, and my desyre is to comon with God.⁴ As for you, ye are workmasters of lyes: and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether.⁵ Wolde God ye kepte youre tonge, that ye might be taken for wyse men.⁶ Therfore heare my wordes, and pondre the sentence of my lippes.⁷ Will ye make answere for God with lyes, and mateyne him with disceate?⁸ Wil ye accepte ye personne of God, and intreate for him?⁹ Shal that helpe you, when he calleth you to rekenynge? Thynke ye to begyle him, as a man is begyled?¹⁰ Punysh you shall he and reproue you, yf ye do secretly accepte eny personne.¹¹ Shall he not make you afrayed, when he sheweth himself? Shal not his terrible feare fall vpo you?¹² youre remembraunce shalbe like the dust, & youre pryde shalbe turned to claye.

¹³ Holde youre tonges now, and let me speake, for there is some thinge come in to my mynde.¹⁴ Wherfore do I beare my flesh in my teth, and my soule in myne hondes?¹⁵ Lo, there is nether coforte ner hope for me, yf he wil slaye me. But yf I shewe and reproue myne owne wayes in his sight,¹⁶ he is euen the same, that maketh me whole: and why? there maye no Ypocrite come before him,¹⁷ Heare my wordes, and pondre my sayenges with youre eares.¹⁸ Beholde, though sentence were geuen vpon me, I am sure to be knowne for vngilty.¹⁹ What is he, that will go to lawe with me? For yf I holde my tonge, I shal dye.²⁰ Neuerthelesse graunte me ij. thinges, and then will I not hyde my self from the.²¹ Withdrawe thine honde fro me, & let not the fearfull drede of the make me afrayed.²² And then sende for me to the lawe, yt I maye answere for my self: or els, let me speake, and geue thou the answere.

²³ How greate are my my?dedes & synnes? Let me knowe my trasgressions & offences.²⁴ Wherfore hydest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemye?²⁵ Wilt thou be so cruell & extreme vnto a flyenge leaf, and folowe vpon drye stubble?²⁶ that thou layest so sharply to my charge, and wilt vtterly vndoo me, for ye synnes of my yougth?²⁷ Thou hast put my fote in the stockes: thou lokest narowly vnto all my pathes, & marckest the steppes of my fete:²⁸ where as I (notwithstondinge) must consume like as a foule carion, and as a cloth that is moth eaten.