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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2What you know, I know also; I am not inferior to you! |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But I wish to speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If only you would keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"Listen now to my argument, and be attentive to my lips' contentions. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He would certainly rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Would not his splendor terrify you and the fear he inspires fall on 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"Refrain from talking with me so that I may speak; then let come to me what may. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face! |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Listen carefully to my words; let your ears be attentive to my explanation. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18See now, I have prepared my case; I know that I am right. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then call, and I will answer, or I will speak, and you respond to me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. |
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