013:001
Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

013:002
What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

013:003
Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

013:004
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

013:005
O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

013:006
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

013:007
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

013:008
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

013:009
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

013:010
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

013:011
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

013:012
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

013:013
Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

013:014
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

013:015
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

013:016
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

013:017
Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

013:018
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

013:019
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

013:020
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

013:021
Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

013:022
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

013:023
How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

013:024
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

013:025
Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

013:026
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

013:027
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.

013:028
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.