Job Continues: Still I Will Hope in God

¹“Behold, my eye has seen all this,

my ear has heard and understood it.

²cWhat you know, I also know;

I am not inferior to you.

³dBut I would speak to the Almighty,

and I desire to eargue my case with God.

⁴As for you, fyou whitewash with lies;

gworthless physicians are you all.

⁵Oh that you would hkeep silent,

and it would be your wisdom!

⁶Hear now my argument

and listen to the pleadings of my lips.

⁷Will you ispeak falsely for God

and speak ideceitfully for him?

⁸Will you show partiality toward him?

Will you jplead the case for God?

⁹Will it be well with you when he ksearches you out?

Or lcan you deceive him, as one deceives a man?

¹⁰He will surely rebuke you

if in secret you show partiality.

¹¹Will not his mmajesty terrify you,

and the dread of him fall upon you?

¹²Your maxims are proverbs of nashes;

your defenses are defenses of clay.

¹³“Let me have silence, and I will speak,

and let come on me what may.

¹⁴Why should I take my flesh in my teeth

and oput my life in my hand?

¹⁵pThough he slay me, I will qhope in him;1

yet I will rargue my ways to his face.

¹⁶This will be my salvation,

that the godless shall not come before him.

¹⁷sKeep listening to my words,

and let my declaration be in your ears.

¹⁸Behold, I have tprepared my case;

I know that I shall be in the right.

¹⁹uWho is there who will contend with me?

For then I would be silent and die.

²⁰Only grant me two things,

then I will not vhide myself from your face:

²¹wwithdraw your hand far from me,

and let not xdread of you terrify me.

²²yThen call, and I will answer;

or let me speak, and you reply to me.

²³How many are my iniquities and my sins?

zMake me know my transgression and my sin.

²⁴Why ado you hide your face

and bcount me as your enemy?

²⁵Will you frighten ca driven leaf

and pursue dry dchaff?

²⁶For you ewrite bitter things against me

and make me inherit fthe iniquities of my youth.

²⁷You put my feet in gthe stocks

and hwatch all my paths;

you set a limit for2 the soles of my feet.

²⁸Man3 wastes away like ia rotten thing,

like a garment that is jmoth-eaten.