1Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. 2What you know, I know [also]; I do not fall [short] of you. 3Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case before God. 4But you [are] imputers of lies; you [are] all worthless healers. 5Oh that you would stop speaking entirely! And it would be your wisdom. 6Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips. 7Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? 8Will you lift up His person, or contend for God? 9Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him? 10He will surely blame you, if you secretly lift up persons. 11Shall not His highness make you afraid, and His dread fall on you? 12Your remembered sayings [are] like ashes, your bodies like bodies of clay. 13Be quiet. Let me alone so that I may speak, and let come on me what may. 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? 15Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him. 16He also [is] my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him. 17Listen carefully to my words, and let what I say be in your ears. 18Behold now, I have set [my] cause in order; I know that I shall be justified. 19Who [is] he [that] will plead for me, for now, I would be quiet and expire. 20Only do not do two [things] to me; then I will not hide myself from You. 21Withdraw Your hand far from me, and let not Your fear make me afraid. 22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and answer You me. 23How many [are] my iniquities and sins? Make known my transgressions and my sin. 24Why do You hide Your face, and hold me for Your enemy? 25Will You terrify a leaf driven to and fro? Will You pursue the dry stubble? 26For You write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the sins of my youth. 27You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet. 28And he wears out like a rotten thing, like a garment that a moth eats.