Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
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1 Behold my eye hath seen all these things, and my ear hath heard them, and I have understood them all.
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"Look, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
2 According to your knowledge I also know: neither am I inferior to you.
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What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
3 But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
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But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God.
4 Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
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As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.
5 And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.
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If you would only keep silent, that would be your wisdom!
6 Hear ye therefore my reproof, 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 Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?
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Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?
8 Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
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Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
9 Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?
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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 shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
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He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
11 As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
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Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
12 Your remembrance shall be compared to ashes, and your necks shall be brought to clay.
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Your maxims are proverbs of ashes, your defenses are defenses of clay.
13 Hold your peace a little while, that I may speak whatsoever my mind shall suggest to me.
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"Let me have silence, and I will speak, and let come on me what may.
14 Why do I tear my flesh with my teeth, and carry my soul in my hands?
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I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.
15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.
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See, he will kill me; I have no hope; but I will defend my ways to his face.
16 And he shall be my saviour: for no hypocrite shall come before his presence.
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This will be my salvation, that the godless shall not come before him.
17 Hear ye my speech, and receive with your ears hidden truths.
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Listen carefully to my words, and let my declaration be in your ears.
18 If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
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I have indeed prepared my case; I know that I shall be vindicated.
19 Who is he that will plead against me? let him come: why am I consumed holding my peace?
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Who is there that will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.
20 Two things only do not to me, and then from thy face I shall not be hid:
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Only grant two things to me, then I will not hide myself from your face:
21 Withdraw thy hand far from me, and let not thy dread terrify me.
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withdraw your hand far from me, and do not let dread of you terrify me.
22 Call me, and I will answer thee: or else I will speak, and do thou answer me.
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Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me.
23 How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my crimes and offenses.
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How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
24 Why hidest thou thy face, and thinkest me thy enemy?
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Why do you hide your face, and count me as your enemy?
25 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.
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Will you frighten a windblown leaf and pursue dry chaff?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for 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 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
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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 Who am to be consumed as rottenness, and as a garment that is motheaten.
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One wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
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