[1]  See, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.

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

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

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[4]  But you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.

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

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

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[7]  Will you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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[8]  Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?

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[9]  Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?

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[10]  He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly accept persons.

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[11]  Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall on you?

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[12]  Your remembrances are like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

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

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[14]  Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

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[15]  Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.

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[16]  He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

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[17]  Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

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

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

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[20]  Only do not two things to me: then will I not hide myself from you.

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[21]  Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid.

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[22]  Then call you, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer you me.

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[23]  How many are my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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[24]  Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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[25]  Will you break a leaf driven to and fro? and will you pursue the dry stubble?

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[26]  For you write bitter things against me, and make me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

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[27]  You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.

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[28]  And he, as a rotten thing, consumes, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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