1Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

2What you^p know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior to you^p.

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

4But you^p are forgers of lies, you^p are all physicians of no value.

5O that you^p would altogether hold your^p peace! and it should be your^p wisdom.

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

7Will you^p speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for Him?

8Will you^p accept His person? will you^p contend for God?

9Is it good that He should search you^p out? or as one man mocks another, do you^p so mock Him?

10He will surely reprove you^p, if you^p do secretly accept persons.   rebuke

11Shall not His excellency make you^p afraid? and His dread fall upon you^p?

12Your^p remembrances are like to ashes, your^p bodies to bodies of clay.

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

14Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?   why

15Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him: but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

16He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before Him.   deliverance, redemption

17Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your^p ears.

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

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