Lo, mine eye{H5869} hath seen{H7200}{(H8804)} all this, mine ear{H241} hath heard{H8085}{(H8804)} and understood{H995}{(H8799)} it.

What ye know{H1847}, the same do I know{H3045}{(H8804)} also: I am not inferior{H5307}{(H8802)} unto you.

Surely{H199} I would speak{H1696}{(H8762)} to the Almighty{H7706}, and I desire{H2654}{(H8799)} to reason{H3198}{(H8687)} with God{H410}.

But{H199} ye are forgers{H2950}{(H8802)} of lies{H8267}, ye are all physicians{H7495}{(H8802)} of no value{H457}.

O that{H5414}{(H8799)} ye would altogether{H2790}{(H8687)} hold your peace{H2790}{(H8686)}! and it should be your wisdom{H2451}.

Hear{H8085}{(H8798)} now my reasoning{H8433}, and hearken{H7181}{(H8685)} to the pleadings{H7379} of my lips{H8193}.

Will ye speak{H1696}{(H8762)} wickedly{H5766} for God{H410}? and talk{H1696}{(H8762)} deceitfully{H7423} for him?

Will ye accept{H5375}{(H8799)} his person{H6440}? will ye contend{H7378}{(H8799)} for God{H410}?

Is it good{H2895}{(H8804)} that he should search you out{H2713}{(H8799)}? or as one man{H582} mocketh{H2048}{(H8763)} another, do ye so mock{H2048}{(H8762)} him?

He will surely{H3198}{(H8687)} reprove{H3198}{(H8686)} you, if ye do secretly{H5643} accept{H5375}{(H8799)} persons{H6440}.

Shall not his excellency{H7613} make you afraid{H1204}{(H8762)}? and his dread{H6343} fall{H5307}{(H8799)} upon you?

Your remembrances{H2146} are like{H4912} unto ashes{H665}, your bodies{H1354} to bodies{H1354} of clay{H2563}.

Hold your peace{H2790}{(H8685)}, let me alone, that I may speak{H1696}{(H8762)}, and let come{H5674}{(H8799)} on me what will.

Wherefore do I take{H5375}{(H8799)} my flesh{H1320} in my teeth{H8127}, and put{H7760}{(H8799)} my life{H5315} in mine hand{H3709}?

Though{H2005} he slay{H6991}{(H8799)} me, yet will I trust{H3176}{(H8762)} in him: but I will maintain{H3198}{(H8686)} mine own ways{H1870} before{H6440} him.

He also shall be my salvation{H3444}: for an hypocrite{H2611} shall not come{H935}{(H8799)} before{H6440} him.

Hear{H8085}{(H8798)} diligently{H8085}{(H8800)} my speech{H4405}, and my declaration{H262} with your ears{H241}.

Behold now, I have ordered{H6186}{(H8804)} my cause{H4941}; I know{H3045}{(H8804)} that I shall be justified{H6663}{(H8799)}.

Who is he that will plead{H7378}{(H8799)} with me? for now, if I hold my tongue{H2790}{(H8686)}, I shall give up the ghost{H1478}{(H8799)}.

Only do{H6213}{(H8799)} not two{H8147} things unto me: then will I not hide{H5641}{(H8735)} myself from thee{H6440}.

Withdraw{H7368} thine hand{H3709} far{H7368}{(H8685)} from me: and let not thy dread{H367} make me afraid{H1204}{(H8762)}.

Then call{H7121}{(H8798)} thou, and I will answer{H6030}{(H8799)}: or let me speak{H1696}{(H8762)}, and answer{H7725}{(H8685)} thou me.

How many are mine iniquities{H5771} and sins{H2403}? make me to know{H3045}{(H8685)} my transgression{H6588} and my sin{H2403}.

Wherefore hidest{H5641}{(H8686)} thou thy face{H6440}, and holdest{H2803}{(H8799)} me for thine enemy{H341}{(H8802)}?

Wilt thou break{H6206}{(H8799)} a leaf{H5929} driven to and fro{H5086}{(H8737)}? and wilt thou pursue{H7291}{(H8799)} the dry{H3002} stubble{H7179}?

For thou writest{H3789}{(H8799)} bitter things{H4846} against me, and makest me to possess{H3423}{(H8686)} the iniquities{H5771} of my youth{H5271}.

Thou puttest{H7760}{(H8799)} my feet{H7272} also in the stocks{H5465}, and lookest narrowly{H8104}{(H8799)} unto all my paths{H734}; thou settest a print{H2707}{(H8691)} upon the heels{H8328} of my feet{H7272}.

And he, as a rotten thing{H7538}, consumeth{H1086}{(H8799)}, as a garment{H899} that is moth{H6211} eaten{H398}{(H8804)}.