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Lo, mine eye[H5869] hath seen[H7200] all this, mine ear[H241] hath heard[H8085] and understood[H995] it.
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What ye know[H1847], the same do I know[H3045] also: I am not inferior[H5307] unto you.
3Surely[H199] I would speak[H1696] to the Almighty[H7706], and I desire[H2654] to reason[H3198] with God[H410].
4But[H199] ye are forgers[H2950] of lies[H8267], ye are all physicians[H7495] of no value[H457].
5
O that[H5414] ye would altogether[H2790] hold your peace[H2790]! and it should be your wisdom[H2451].
6Hear[H8085] now my reasoning[H8433], and hearken[H7181] to the pleadings[H7379] of my lips[H8193].
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Will ye speak[H1696]wickedly[H5766] for God?[H410] and talk[H1696]deceitfully[H7423] for him?
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Will ye accept[H5375] his person?[H6440] will ye contend[H7378] for God?[H410]
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Is it good[H2895] that he should search you out?[H2713] or as one man[H582]mocketh[H2048] another, do ye so mock[H2048] him?
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He will surely[H3198]reprove[H3198] you, if ye do secretly[H5643]accept[H5375]persons[H6440].
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Shall not his excellency[H7613] make you afraid?[H1204] and his dread[H6343]fall[H5307] upon you?
12
Your remembrances[H2146] are like[H4912] unto ashes[H665], your bodies[H1354] to bodies[H1354] of clay[H2563].
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Hold your peace[H2790], let me alone, that I may speak[H1696], and let come[H5674] on me what will.
14
Wherefore do I take[H5375] my flesh[H1320] in my teeth[H8127], and put[H7760] my life[H5315] in mine hand?[H3709]
15Though[H2005] he slay[H6991] me, yet will I trust[H3176] in him: but I will maintain[H3198] mine own ways[H1870]before[H6440] him.
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He also shall be my salvation[H3444]: for an hypocrite[H2611] shall not come[H935]before[H6440] him.
17Hear[H8085]diligently[H8085] my speech[H4405], and my declaration[H262] with your ears[H241].
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Behold now, I have ordered[H6186] my cause[H4941]; I know[H3045] that I shall be justified[H6663].
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Who is he that will plead[H7378] with me? for now, if I hold my tongue[H2790], I shall give up the ghost[H1478].
20
Only do[H6213] not two[H8147] things unto me: then will I not hide[H5641] myself from thee[H6440].
21Withdraw[H7368] thine hand[H3709]far[H7368] from me: and let not thy dread[H367] make me afraid[H1204].
22
Then call[H7121] thou, and I will answer[H6030]: or let me speak[H1696], and answer[H7725] thou me.
23
How many are mine iniquities[H5771] and sins?[H2403] make me to know[H3045] my transgression[H6588] and my sin[H2403].
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Wherefore hidest[H5641] thou thy face[H6440], and holdest[H2803] me for thine enemy?[H341]
25
Wilt thou break[H6206] a leaf[H5929] driven to and fro?[H5086] and wilt thou pursue[H7291] the dry[H3002]stubble?[H7179]
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For thou writest[H3789] bitter things[H4846] against me, and makest me to possess[H3423] the iniquities[H5771] of my youth[H5271].
27
Thou puttest[H7760] my feet[H7272] also in the stocks[H5465], and lookest narrowly[H8104] unto all my paths[H734]; thou settest a print[H2707] upon the heels[H8328] of my feet[H7272].
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And he, as a rotten thing[H7538], consumeth[H1086], as a garment[H899] that is moth[H6211]eaten[H398].