1Loe, mine eye hath seene all this: mine eare hath heard, and vnderstande it. 2I knowe also as much as you knowe: I am not inferiour vnto you. 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value. 5Oh, that you woulde holde your tongue, that it might be imputed to you for wisedome! 6Nowe heare my disputation, and giue eare to the arguments of my lips. 7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God? 9Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man? 10He will surely reprooue you, if ye doe secretly accept any person. 11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you? 12Your remembrances [are] like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. 13Holde your tongues in my presence, that I may speake, and let come vpon what will. 14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15Loe, though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, and I will reprooue my wayes in his sight. 16He also [shall be] my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. 17Heare diligently my wordes, and marke my talke. 18Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20But doe not these two things vnto me: then will I not hide my selfe from thee. 21Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 22Then call thou, and I will answere: or let me speake, and answere thou me. 23How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie? 25Wilt thou breake a leafe driuen to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the drie stubble? 26For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 28Such one consumeth like a rotten thing, and as a garment that is motheaten.