¹ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. Cross refs

² What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. Cross refs

³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. Cross refs

⁴ But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. Cross refs

⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. Cross refs

⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Cross refs

⁷ Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Cross refs

⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Cross refs

⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? Cross refs

¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. Cross refs

¹¹ Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? Cross refs

¹² Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. Cross refs

¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. Cross refs

¹⁴ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? Cross refs

¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. Cross refs

¹⁶ He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. Cross refs

¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. Cross refs

¹⁸ Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. Cross refs

¹⁹ Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. Cross refs

²⁰ Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. Cross refs

²¹ Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. Cross refs

²² Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me. Cross refs

²³ How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. Cross refs

²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? Cross refs

²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? Cross refs

²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Cross refs

²⁷ 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. Cross refs

²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten. Cross refs