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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13“Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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