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