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1 Lo, my eye hath seen all [this], my ear hath heard and understood it.
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1 "My eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.
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2 What ye know, [the same] do I know also: I [am] not inferior to you.
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2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
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3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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3 But I desire to speak to the Almighty and to argue my case with God.
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4 But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
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4 You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
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5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace and it would be your wisdom.
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5 If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
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6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
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6 Hear now my argument; listen to the plea of my lips.
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7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
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7 Will you speak wickedly on God's behalf ? Will you speak deceitfully for him?
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8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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8 Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
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9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye [so] mock him?
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9 Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?
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10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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10 He would surely rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
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11 Shall not his excellence make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
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11 Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you?
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12 Your remembrances [are] like to ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what [will].
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13 "Keep silent and let me speak; then let come to me what may.
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14 Why do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?
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14 Why do I put myself in jeopardy and take my life in my hands?
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15 Though he shall slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
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15 Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face.
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16 He also [shall be] my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.
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16 Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless man would dare come before him!
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17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
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17 Listen carefully to my words; let your ears take in what I say.
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18 Behold now, I have ordered [my] cause; I know that I shall be justified.
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18 Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.
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19 Who [is] he [that] will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall expire.
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19 Can anyone bring charges against me? If so, I will be silent and die.
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20 Only do not two [things] to me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
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20 "Only grant me these two things, O God, and then I will not hide from you:
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21 Withdraw thy hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
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21 Withdraw your hand far from me, and stop frightening me with your terrors.
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22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
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22 Then summon me and I will answer, or let me speak, and you reply.
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23 How many [are] my iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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23 How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.
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24 Why hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thy enemy?
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24 Why do you hide your face and consider me your enemy?
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25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
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25 Will you torment a windblown leaf ? Will you chase after dry chaff ?
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26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
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26 For you write down bitter things against me and make me inherit the sins of my youth.
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27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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27 You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.
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28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth-eaten.
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28 "So man wastes away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
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