God’s Word
For Everyday Life

“Behold, my eye has seen all this.

What you know, I know also.

“Surely I would speak to the Almighty.

But you are forgers of lies.

Oh that you would be completely silent!

Hear now my reasoning.

Will you speak unrighteously for God,

Will you show partiality to him?

Is it good that he should search you out?

He will surely reprove you

Won’t his majesty make you afraid

Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

“Be silent!

Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,

Behold, he will kill me.

This also will be my salvation,

Listen carefully to my speech.

See now, I have set my cause in order.

Who is he who will contend with me?

“Only don’t do two things to me,

withdraw your hand far from me,

Then call, and I will answer,

How many are my iniquities and sins?

Why do you hide your face,

Will you harass a driven leaf?

For you write bitter things against me,

You also put my feet in the stocks,

though I am decaying like a rotten thing,