1<\/sup>Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men..<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed ? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings ?<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?<\/span> <\/p>\n 15<\/sup>Although he should bill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.<\/span> <\/p>\n 16<\/sup>And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.<\/span> <\/p>\n 17<\/sup>Hear ye my speech, and receive with Sour ears hidden truths.<\/span> <\/p>\n 18<\/sup>If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.<\/span> <\/p>\n 19<\/sup>Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?<\/span> <\/p>\n 20<\/sup>Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:<\/span> <\/p>\n 21<\/sup>Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 22<\/sup>Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 23<\/sup>How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offences.<\/span> <\/p>\n 24<\/sup>Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?<\/span> <\/p>\n 25<\/sup>Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.<\/span> <\/p>\n 26<\/sup>For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth.<\/span> <\/p>\n 27<\/sup>Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:<\/span> <\/p>\n 28<\/sup>Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is moth-eaten.<\/span> <\/p>\n