| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 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] | 2"What you know I also know; I am not inferior to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to argue with God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"But you smear with lies; You are all worthless physicians. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"O that you would be completely silent, And that it would become your wisdom! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Please hear my argument And listen to the contentions of my lips. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Will you speak what is unjust for God, And speak what is deceitful for Him? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"Will you show partiality for Him? Will you contend for God? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"Will it be well when He examines you? Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"He will surely reprove you If you secretly show partiality. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Will not His majesty terrify you, And the dread of Him fall on you? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Be silent before me so that I may speak; Then let come on me what may. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Why should I take my flesh in my teeth And put my life in my hands? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. Nevertheless I will argue my ways before Him. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"This also will be my salvation, For a godless man may not come before His presence. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Listen carefully to my speech, And let my declaration fill your ears. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Behold now, I have prepared my case; I know that I will be vindicated. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Only two things do not do to me, Then I will not hide from Your face: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Remove Your hand from me, And let not the dread of You terrify me. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, then reply to me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"How many are my iniquities and sins? Make known to me my rebellion and my sin. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble? Or will You pursue the dry chaff? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"For You write bitter things against me And make me to inherit the iniquities of my youth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"You 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] | 28While I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten. |
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