English Standard Version ESV
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 “Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
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ecce omnia et vidit oculus meus et audivit auris mea et intellexi singula
2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
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secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi nec inferior vestri sum
3 But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
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sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar et disputare cum Deo cupio
4 As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
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prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii et cultores perversorum dogmatum
5 Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
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atque utinam taceretis ut putaremini esse sapientes
6 Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
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audite ergo correptiones meas et iudicium labiorum meorum adtendite
7 Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
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numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio ut pro illo loquamini dolos
8 Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?
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numquid faciem eius accipitis et pro Deo iudicare nitimini
9 Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
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aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest aut decipietur ut homo vestris fraudulentiis
10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
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ipse vos arguet quoniam in abscondito faciem eius accipitis
11 Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
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statim ut se commoverit turbabit vos et terror eius inruet super vos
12 Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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memoria vestra conparabitur cineri et redigentur in lutum cervices vestrae
13 “Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
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tacete paulisper ut loquar quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit
14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
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quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis et animam meam porto in manibus meis
15 Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.
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etiam si occiderit me in ipso sperabo verumtamen vias meas in conspectu eius arguam
16 This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
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et ipse erit salvator meus non enim veniet in conspectu eius omnis hypocrita
17 Keep listening to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
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audite sermonem meum et enigmata percipite auribus vestris
18 Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
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si fuero iudicatus scio quod iustus inveniar
19 Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
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quis est qui iudicetur mecum veniat quare tacens consumor
20 Only grant me two things, then I will not hide myself from your face:
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duo tantum ne facias mihi et tunc a facie tua non abscondar
21 withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me.
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manum tuam longe fac a me et formido tua non me terreat
22 Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
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et voca me et respondebo tibi aut certe loquar et tu responde mihi
23 How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
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quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi
24 Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?
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cur faciem tuam abscondis et arbitraris me inimicum tuum
25 Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
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contra folium quod vento rapitur ostendis potentiam tuam et stipulam siccam persequeris
26 For you write bitter things against me and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
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scribis enim contra me amaritudines et consumere me vis peccatis adulescentiae meae
27 You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.
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posuisti in nervo pedem meum et observasti omnes semitas meas et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti
28 Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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qui quasi putredo consumendus sum et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea