Verse 1
Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
Verse 2
What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
Verse 3
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Verse 4
But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Verse 5
Oh that you would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom.
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
Verse 6
Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Verse 7
Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Verse 8
Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Verse 9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Verse 10
He will surely reprove you, if you secretly show partiality.
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Verse 11
Shall not his excellence make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Verse 12
Your remembrances are like ashes, your defenses to defenses of clay.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
Verse 13
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let happen to me what will.
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Verse 14
Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Verse 15
Though he slays me, yet will I trust in him; but I will defend my own ways before him.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
Verse 16
He also shall be my salvation, for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
Verse 17
Listen diligently to my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
Verse 18
Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be justified.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Verse 19
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I keep silent, I shall die.
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
Verse 20
Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Verse 21
Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not your dread make me afraid.
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
Verse 22
Then call, and I will answer, or let me speak, and you answer me.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Verse 23
How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
Verse 24
Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
Verse 25
Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue dry stubble?
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Verse 26
For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
Verse 27
You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a mark upon the soles of my feet.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Verse 28
And he, like a decaying thing, consumes, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.