1 ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus
et audivit auris mea et intellexi singula
2 secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestri sum
3 sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio
4 prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii
et cultores perversorum dogmatum
5 atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes
6 audite ergo correptiones meas
et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite
7 numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio
ut pro illo loquamini dolos
8 numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini
9 aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest
aut decipietur ut homo vestris fraudulentiis
10 ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis
11 statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos
et terror eius inruet super vos
12 memoria vestra conparabitur cineri
et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae
13 tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit
14 quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis
et animam meam porto in manibus meis
15 etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo
verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam
16 et ipse erit salvator meus
non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita
17 audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris
18 si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar
19 quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor
20 duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua non abscondar
21 manum tuam longe fac a me
et formido tua non me terreat
22 et voca me et respondebo tibi
aut certe loquar et tu responde mihi
23 quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata
scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi
24 cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum
25 contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuam
et stipulam siccam persequeris
26 scribis enim contra me amaritudines
et consumere me vis peccatis adulescentiae meae
27 posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitas meas
et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti
28 qui quasi putredo consumendus sum
et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea
1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this , mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? 8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons. 11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you? 12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will . 14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand? 15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. 16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him. 17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears. 18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified. 19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost. 20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee. 21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid. 22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.