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
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in mine hand
15 Though he slay me yet will I trust in him but I will maintain mine own ways before him
16 He also shall be my salvation for an hypocrite shall not come before him
17 Hear diligently my speech and my declaration with your ears
18 Behold now I have ordered my cause I know that I shall be justified
19 Who is he that will plead with me for now if I hold my tongue I shall give up the ghost
20 Only do not two things unto me then will I not hide myself from thee
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me and let not thy dread make me afraid
22 Then call thou and I will answer or let me speak and answer thou me
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins make me to know my transgression and my sin
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble
26 For thou writest bitter things against me and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth
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
28 And he as a rotten thing consumeth as a garment that is moth eaten
