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📚✭“Look, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.2 📚What you know, I also know. I am not inferior to 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 📚Oh, that you would altogether keep silent! That would be your wisdom.
6 📚✭Listen now to my reasoning, and hear the pleas of my lips.
7 📚Will you speak wickedly for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
8 📚Will you show partiality toward his person? Will you argue for God?
9 📚Would it be good if he searched you out? Or will you mock him like one man mocks another?
10 📚He will surely rebuke you, if you secretly show partiality.
11 📚Will his excellence not make you afraid? And his dread fall on you?
12 📚Your old sayings are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 📚✭“Keep silent! Leave me alone, so that I can speak, and let come on me what may!
14 📚Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
15 📚Though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; but I will defend my ways before him.
16 📚And he will be my salvation; for a hypocrite✭ does not come before him.
17 📚Listen carefully to my speech, and hear my declaration with your ears.
18 📚See now, I have prepared my case. I know that I will be vindicated.
19 📚Who is the one who will argue the case with me? For now, if I hold my tongue, I will die.
20 📚✭“Only do not do two things to me, then I will not hide myself from you:
21 📚Withdraw your hand far from me, and let not the dread of you make me afraid.
22 📚✭Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.
23 📚How many are my iniquities and sins? Cause me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 📚Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy?
25 📚Will you terrify a leaf driven to and fro? And will you pursue dry stubble?
26 📚✭For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
27 📚You also put my feet in the stocks, and closely watch all my paths. You put a mark on the heels of my feet.
28 📚“And man is consumed like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth eaten.