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