1"Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.ΒΆ
2What you know, I know also.
3"Surely I would speak to the Almighty.
4But you are forgers of lies.
5Oh that you would be completely silent!
6Hear now my reasoning.
7Will you speak unrighteously for God,
8Will you show partiality to him?
9Is it good that he should search you out?
10He will surely reprove you
11Shall not his majesty make you afraid,
12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes,
13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak.
14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,
15Behold, he will kill me.
16This also shall be my salvation,
17Hear diligently my speech.
18See now, I have set my cause in order.
19Who is he who will contend with me?
20"Only do not do two things to me;
21withdraw your hand far from me;
22Then call, and I will answer;
23How many are my iniquities and sins?
24Why hide you your face,
25Will you harass a driven leaf?
26For you write bitter things against me,
27You also put my feet in the stocks,
28though I am decaying like a rotten thing,