Lo, mine eye hath seen all,{HR}Mine ear hath heard and understood.
What ye know, I know also,{HR}I do not sink beneath you.
But I will speak to the Almighty,{HR}And I desire to plead with God;
But ye [are] forgers of lies,{HR}Physicians of no value [are] ye all.
O that ye would altogether be silent,{HR}And it would become your wisdom.
Hear now my reproof,{HR}And attend to the pleadings of my lips.
For God do ye speak wickedly,{HR}And for him do ye talk deceit?
Will ye lift up his countenance?{HR}Will ye contend for God?
Is it well that he should search you out?{HR}Or deceive ye him, as one man deceiveth another?
He will surely reprove you, if ye secretly accept persons.
Doth not his excellency terrify you,{HR}And his dread fall upon you?
Your maxims [are] proverbs of ashes,{HR}Your bulwarks, bulwarks of clay!
Be silent from me, and I speak;{HR}And let pass over me what [will].
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth,{HR}And put my life in my hand?
Lo, he will slay me, yet will I trust him;{HR}But my ways to his face I will argue.
This also will be my salvation,{HR}That no polluted one shall come before him.
Hear, O hear, my declaration{HR}And my utterances with your ears.
Lo, now, I have ordered my cause,{HR}I know that I shall be justified.
Who is he [that] will contend with me?{HR}Then indeed I would be silent, and expire.
Only two things do not thou to me:{HR}Then will I not hide myself from thee.
Thy hand put far off from me,{HR}And let not thy terror terrify me.
Then call thou, and I will answer,{HR}Or let me speak, and answer thou me.
How many my iniquities and sins!{HR}My transgression and my sin make me know.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face,{HR}And regardest me as an enemy to thee?
Wilt thou terrify a driven leaf,{HR}And wilt thou pursue dry stubble?
For thou writest for me bitter things,{HR}And makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth;
And puttest my feet in the stocks,{HR}And watchest all my paths,{HR}On the soles of my feet thou cuttest;
And he as a rotten thing consumeth,{HR}As a garment which the moth hath eaten.