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¹ Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.² According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.³ But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.⁴ Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.⁵ And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.⁶ Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.⁷ Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?⁸ Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?⁹ Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?¹⁰ He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.¹¹ As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.¹² Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.

¹³ Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.¹⁴ Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?¹⁵ Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.¹⁶ And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.¹⁷ Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.¹⁸ If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.¹⁹ Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?²⁰ Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.²² Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.

²³ How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses.²⁴ Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?²⁵ Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.²⁷ Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:²⁸ Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.