1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. |
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. |
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. |
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. |
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. |
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. |
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? |
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? |
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. |
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? |
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay. |
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will. |
