KJV ¹ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.

VULC ¹ [Ecce omnia hæc vidit oculus meus,
et audivit auris mea, et intellexi singula.

KJV ² What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

VULC ² Secundum scientiam vestram et ego novi :
nec inferior vestri sum.

KJV ³ Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

VULC ³ Sed tamen ad Omnipotentem loquar,
et disputare cum Deo cupio :

KJV ⁴ But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

VULC ⁴ prius vos ostendens fabricatores mendacii,
et cultores perversorum dogmatum.

KJV ⁵ O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.

VULC ⁵ Atque utinam taceretis,
ut putaremini esse sapientes.

KJV ⁶ Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

VULC ⁶ Audite ergo correptionem meam,
et judicium labiorum meorum attendite.

KJV ⁷ Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

VULC ⁷ Numquid Deus indiget vestro mendacio,
ut pro illo loquamini dolos ?

KJV ⁸ Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

VULC ⁸ numquid faciem ejus accipitis,
et pro Deo judicare nitimini ?

KJV ⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

VULC ⁹ aut placebit ei quem celare nihil potest ?
aut decipietur, ut homo, vestris fraudulentiis ?

KJV ¹⁰ He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

VULC ¹⁰ Ipse vos arguet,
quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.

KJV ¹¹ Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

VULC ¹¹ Statim ut se commoverit, turbabit vos,
et terror ejus irruet super vos.

KJV ¹² Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

VULC ¹² Memoria vestra comparabitur cineri,
et redigentur in lutum cervices vestræ.

KJV ¹³ Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

VULC ¹³ Tacete paulisper, ut loquar
quodcumque mihi mens suggesserit.

KJV ¹⁴ Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?

VULC ¹⁴ Quare lacero carnes meas dentibus meis,
et animam meam porto in manibus meis ?

KJV ¹⁵ Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

VULC ¹⁵ Etiam si occiderit me, in ipso sperabo :
verumtamen vias meas in conspectu ejus arguam.

KJV ¹⁶ He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.

VULC ¹⁶ Et ipse erit salvator meus :
non enim veniet in conspectu ejus omnis hypocrita.

KJV ¹⁷ Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.

VULC ¹⁷ Audite sermonem meum,
et ænigmata percipite auribus vestris.

KJV ¹⁸ Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

VULC ¹⁸ Si fuero judicatus,
scio quod justus inveniar.

KJV ¹⁹ Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

VULC ¹⁹ Quis est qui judicetur mecum ?
veniat : quare tacens consumor ?

KJV ²⁰ Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.

VULC ²⁰ Duo tantum ne facias mihi,
et tunc a facie tua non abscondar :

KJV ²¹ Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.

VULC ²¹ manum tuam longe fac a me,
et formido tua non me terreat.

KJV ²² Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.

VULC ²² Voca me, et ego respondebo tibi :
aut certe loquar, et tu responde mihi.

KJV ²³ How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

VULC ²³ Quantas habeo iniquitates et peccata ?
scelera mea et delicta ostende mihi.

KJV ²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?

VULC ²⁴ Cur faciem tuam abscondis,
et arbitraris me inimicum tuum ?

KJV ²⁵ Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

VULC ²⁵ Contra folium, quod vento rapitur, ostendis potentiam tuam,
et stipulam siccam persequeris :

KJV ²⁶ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

VULC ²⁶ scribis enim contra me amaritudines,
et consumere me vis peccatis adolescentiæ meæ.

KJV ²⁷ Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

VULC ²⁷ Posuisti in nervo pedem meum,
et observasti omnes semitas meas,
et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti :

KJV ²⁸ And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

VULC ²⁸ qui quasi putredo consumendus sum,
et quasi vestimentum quod comeditur a tinea.]