Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this, My ear has heard and understood it.
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Lo, all -- hath mine eye seen, Heard hath mine ear, and it attendeth to it.
2 What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.
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According to your knowledge I have known -- also I. I am not fallen more than you.
3 "Surely I would speak to Shaddai. I desire to reason with God.
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Yet I for the Mighty One do speak, And to argue for God I delight.
4 But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
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And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
5 Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.
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O that ye would keep perfectly silent, And it would be to you for wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.
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Hear, I pray you, my argument, And to the pleadings of my lips attend,
7 Will you speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?
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For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
8 Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
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His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
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Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
10 He will surely reprove you If you secretly show partiality.
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He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
11 Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?
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Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?
12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.
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Your remembrances [are] similes of ashes, For high places of clay your heights.
13 "Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.
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Keep silent from me, and I speak, And pass over me doth what?
14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
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Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth? And my soul put in my hand?
15 Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.
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Lo, He doth slay me -- I wait not! Only, my ways unto His face I argue.
16 This also shall be my salvation, That a godless man shall not come before him.
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Also -- He [is] to me for salvation, For the profane cometh not before Him.
17 Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.
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Hear ye diligently my word, And my declaration with your ears.
18 See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
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Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my shalom and give up the spirit.
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Who [is] he that doth strive with me? For now I keep silent and gasp.
20 "Only don't do two things to me; Then I will not hide myself from your face:
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Only two things, O God, do with me: Then from Thy face I am not hidden.
21 Withdraw your hand far from me; And don't let your terror make me afraid.
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Thy hand put far off from me, And Thy terror let not terrify me.
22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.
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And call Thou, and I -- I answer, Or -- I speak, and answer Thou me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
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How many iniquities and sins have I? My transgression and my sin let me know.
24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
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Why dost Thou hide Thy face? And reckonest me for an enemy to Thee?
25 Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?
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A leaf driven away dost Thou terrify? And the dry stubble dost Thou pursue?
26 For you write bitter things against me, And make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:
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For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:
27 You also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:
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And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
28 Though I am decaying like a rotten thing, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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And he, as a rotten thing, weareth away, As a garment hath a moth consumed him.
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