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¹ Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.² What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior to you.³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.⁴ But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.⁷ Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.¹¹ Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?¹² Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].¹⁴ Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?¹⁵ Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.¹⁶ He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.¹⁸ Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.¹⁹ Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.²⁰ Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide myself from thee.²¹ Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.²² Then call thou, 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 transgression and my sin.²⁴ Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.²⁷ Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.