Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 Behold, mine eye has seen these things, and mine ear has heard .
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"Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2 And I know all that ye too know; and I have not less understanding than you.
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What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 Nevertheless I will speak to the Lord, and I will reason before him, if he will.
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But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
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As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.
5 But would that ye were silent, and it would be wisdom to you in the end.
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If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
6 But hear ye the reasoning of my mouth, and attend to the judgment of my lips.
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Hear now my reasoning, and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Do ye not speak before the Lord, and utter deceit before him?
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Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
8 Or will ye draw back? nay do, ye yourselves be judges.
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Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
9 For well if he would thoroughly search you: for though doing all things ye should attach yourselves to him,
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Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one person deceives another?
10 he will not reprove you at all the less: but if moreover ye should secretly respect persons,
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He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
11 shall not his whirlpool sweep you round, and terror from him fall upon you?
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Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 And your glorying shall prove in the end to you like ashes, and your body of clay.
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Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Be silent, that I may speak, and cease from anger,
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"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
14 while I may take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
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I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 Though the Mighty One should lay hand upon me, forasmuch as he has begun, verily I will speak, and plead before him.
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See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.
16 And this shall turn to me for salvation; for fraud shall have no entrance before him.
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This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
17 Hear, hear ye my words, for I will declare in your hearing.
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Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 Behold, I am near my judgment: I know that I shall appear evidently just.
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I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 For who is he that shall plead with me, that I should now be silent, and expire?
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Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
20 But grant me two things: then I will not hide myself from thy face.
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Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 Withhold hand from me: and let not thy fear terrify me.
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withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me.
22 Then shalt thou call, and I will hearken to thee: or thou shalt speak, and I will give thee an answer.
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Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23 How many are my sins and my transgressions? teach me what they are.
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How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thyself from me, and deemest me thine enemy?
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Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy?
25 Wilt thou be startled , as a leaf shaken by the wind? or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?
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Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?
26 for thou hast written evil things against me, and thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.
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For you write bitter things against me, and make me reap the iniquities of my youth.
27 And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.
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You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
28 that which waxes old like a bottle, or like a moth-eaten garment.
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One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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