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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"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 also know; I am not inferior to you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you! |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Hear now my argument; listen to the pleas of my lips. |
| 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 examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal? |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him 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"Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless person would dare come before him! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Listen carefully to what I say; let my words ring in your ears. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"Only grant me these two things, God, and then I will not hide from you: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply to me. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy? |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Will you torment a windblown leaf? Will you chase after dry chaff? |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For you write down bitter things against me and make me reap the sins of my youth. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28"So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths. |
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