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13Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
²What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
³Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
⁴But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
⁵O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
⁶Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
⁷Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
⁸Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
⁹Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
¹⁰He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
¹¹Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
¹²Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
¹³Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
¹⁴Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
¹⁵Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
¹⁶He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
¹⁷Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
¹⁸Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
¹⁹Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
²⁰Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
²¹Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
²²Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
²⁵Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
²⁶For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
²⁷Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
²⁸And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

14Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
²He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
³And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
⁴Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
⁵Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
⁶Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
⁷For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
⁸Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
⁹Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
¹⁰But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
¹¹As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
¹²So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.
¹³O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
¹⁴If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
¹⁵Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
¹⁸And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
¹⁹The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
²⁰Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
²¹His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
²²But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.