1. Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2. What you 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 you are forgers of lies, you are all physicians of no value.
5. O that you 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 you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8. Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
9. Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
10. He will surely reprove you, if you do secretly show partiality.
11. Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12. Your proverbs are like unto ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13. Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14. Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?