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1“Look, my eye has seen all this;
my ear has heard and understood it.
2What you know, I also know;
I am not inferior to you.
3But I would speak to the Almighty,[#Job 23.3, 4; #13.3 Traditional rendering of Heb Shaddai]
and I desire to argue my case with God.
4As for you, you whitewash with lies;[#Ps 119.69; Jer 23.32]
all of you are worthless physicians.
5If you would only keep silent,[#Prov 17.28]
that would be your wisdom!
6Hear now my reasoning,
and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will you speak falsely for God
and speak deceitfully for him?
8Will you show partiality toward him;
will you plead the case for God?
9Will it be well with you when he searches you out?[#Ps 44.21; Gal 6.7]
Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?
10He will surely rebuke you
if in secret you show partiality.
11Will not his majesty terrify you
and the dread of him fall upon you?
12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes;[#Job 15.3]
your defenses are defenses of clay.
13“Let me have silence, and I will speak,
and let come on me what may.
14I will take my flesh in my teeth[#1 Sam 19.5]
and put my life in my hand.
15See, he will kill me; I have no hope;[#Job 27.5; Ps 23.4; Prov 14.32; #13.15 Or Though he kill me, yet I will trust in him]
but I will defend my ways to his face.
16This will be my salvation,[#Ps 5.5]
that the godless shall not come before him.
17Listen carefully to my words,[#Job 21.2]
and let my declaration be in your ears.
18I have indeed prepared my case;
I know that I shall be vindicated.
19Who is there who will contend with me?[#Job 40.4; Isa 50.8]
For then I would be silent and die.
20“Only grant two things to me;
then I will not hide myself from your face:
21withdraw your hand far from me,[#Ps 39.10]
and do not let dread of you terrify me.
22Then call, and I will answer;[#Job 14.15]
or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23How many are my iniquities and my sins?[#1 Sam 26.18]
Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24Why do you hide your face[#Deut 32.20; Job 19.11; Ps 13.1]
and count me as your enemy?
25Will you frighten a windblown leaf[#Isa 42.3]
and pursue dry chaff?
26For you write bitter things against me[#Ps 25.7]
and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.
27You put my feet in the stocks
and watch all my paths;
you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28One wastes away like a rotten thing,[#Isa 50.9; Jas 5.2]
like a garment that is moth-eaten.