In truth I know that it is so; for how shall there be a just mortal before the lord?
For if he should want to enter into judgment with him, in no way shall God obey him, so that he shall not contradict with one word of his from out of a thousand.
Wise for he is in thought, fortified also, and great. Who hard being before him even made peace?
The of old mountains even do not know the one eradicating them in anger.
The one shaking the thing under heaven from its foundations, and the columns of it shake.
The one speaking to the sun, and it does not rise; and accordingly the stars he seals up.
The one stretching the heaven alone, and walking as upon a floor upon the sea.
The one making Pleiades and Hesperus and Arcturus, and the chambers of the south.
The one doing great and untraceable things; honorable also, and extraordinary things which there is no number.
If he should pass over me, in no way shall I behold it; and if he should go by me, neither thus I knew it.
If he dismisses, who returns? or who shall say to him, What did you do?
God will not turn away the anger, under him but were bent the whales under heaven.
But then should he obey me, or shall he litigate my things?
even if for just I should be shall he listen not to me? his equity I will beseech.
And if I should call and he should hearken, I do not trust that he has listened to my voice.
not by dimness he should obliterate me; but many of my bruises he has made without cause.
not he allows for me to breathe, and he filled me with bitterness.
For indeed by strength he prevails; who then his judgment shall oppose?
For if I might be just, my mouth will be impious; and though I might be blameless, perverse I shall turn out.
For whether I was impious, I do not know in soul; besides, is removed from me the life.
Therefore I said, the great and mighty one he destroys in wrath.
For the vile in death are extraordinary, but the just are ridiculed.
For they are delivered into the hands of the impious; the faces of her judges he covers up; but if not he, who is it?
But my existence is lighter than a runner; my days ran away, and they knew it not.
Or also is there of ships a trace in the way? or a trace of an eagle flying seeking prey?
For if also I said, I shall forget about speaking, I will stoop down my countenance and I will moan.
I shake in all my limbs, for I know that not me be innocent you will let.
But since I am impious, for why is this in vain I labor?
For if I should wash myself off with snow, and should clear away my hands clean,
fittingly in my filth you dipped me; abhorred and me my apparel.
not for you are a man like me, with whom I can judge by comparison, that we should come with one accord for judgment.
If indeed was present our mediator, and the one reproving, and the one hearing between both,
let him dismiss from me the rod, and fear of him let not me whirl about,
and in no way shall I fear, but I will speak, for I am not thus conscious of guilt.