1 "Behold, my eye has seen all this.

My ear has heard and understood it.

2 What you know, I know also.

I am not inferior to you.

3 "Surely I would speak to the Almighty.

I desire to reason with God.

4 But you are forgers of lies.

You are all physicians of no value.

5 Oh that you would be completely silent!

Then you would be wise.

6 Hear now my reasoning.

Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will you speak unrighteously for God,

and talk deceitfully for him?

8 Will you show partiality to him?

Will you contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out?

Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

10 He will surely reprove you

if you secretly show partiality.

11 Won’t his majesty make you afraid

and his dread fall on you?

12 Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes.

Your defenses are defenses of clay.

13 "Be silent!

Leave me alone, that I may speak.

Let come on me what will.

14 Why should I take my flesh in my teeth,

and put my life in my hand?

15 Behold, he will kill me.

I have no hope.

Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

16 This also will be my salvation,

that a godless man will not come before him.

17 Listen carefully to my speech.

Let my declaration be in your ears.

18 See now, I have set my cause in order.

I know that I am righteous.

19 Who is he who will contend with me?

For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

20 "Only don’t do two things to me,

then I will not hide myself from your face:

21 withdraw your hand far from me,

and don’t let your terror make me afraid.

22 Then call, and I will answer,

or let me speak, and you answer me.

23 How many are my iniquities and sins?

Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

24 Why do you hide your face,

and consider me your enemy?

25 Will you harass a driven leaf?

Will you pursue the dry stubble?

26 For you write bitter things against me,

and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth.

27 You also put my feet in the stocks,

and mark all my paths.

You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

28 though I am decaying like a rotten thing,

like a garment that is moth-eaten.

1 Nana, kua kitea katoatia tenei e toku kanohi, kua rongo toku taringa, kua mohio.

2 Ko ta koutou e mohio na, ko taku ano tena e mohio nei: kahore hoki ahau i hoki iho i a koutou.

3 Ina, e whai kupu ano ahau ki te Kaha Rawa: a e hiahia ana ki te korerorero ki te Atua.

4 Ko koutou ia, he hunga tito i te teka, he rata horihori noa koutou katoa.

5 Te pai na, me i mutu rawa a koutou korero! Ko to koutou whakaaro nui hoki tena.

6 Tena ra, whakarongo mai ki taku tautohe, maharatia nga whawhai a oku ngutu.

7 Me tautoko ta te Atua ki te kupu kino? me tautoko ranei tana ki te tinihanga?

8 Ka whakapai kanohi koia koutou ki a ia? Ma koutou ranei ta te Atua tautohe?

9 He pai ranei kia rapua ta koutou e ia? E maminga ranei koutou ki a ia, e pera me tetahi ka maminga nei ki te tangata?

10 He pono ka whakahe ia ki a koutou ki te whakapai puku koutou i te kanohi.

11 E kore ranei koutou e mataku ki tona nui? E kore ranei te wehi ki a ia e tau ki a koutou?

12 Ko a koutou pepeha nunui he whakatauki no te pungarehu, ko o koutou parepare he parepare paru.

13 Kati te korero, waiho noa iho ahau, kia korero ai ahau, ahakoa pa mai te aha ki ahau.

14 He aha oku kikokiko i ngaua ai e oku niho? He aha toku wairua i waiho ai e ahau i roto i toku ringa?

15 Ahakoa whakamate noa ia i ahau, ka tatari tonu ahau ki a ia: otiia ka mau tonu ahau ki oku ara i tona aroaro.

16 Ko tenei hoki hei oranga moku; e kore hoki te tangata atuakore e tae mai ki tona aroaro.

17 Ata whakarongo ki aku korero: kia anga mai o koutou taringa ki taku e whakapuaki nei.

18 Na kua takoto taku mo te whakawa; e mohio ana ahau he tika ahau.

19 Ko wai ia hei totohe ki ahau? Ka whakarongo puku hoki ahau aianei, a ka hemo ahau.

20 Engari kaua nga mea e rua e meatia mai ki ahau; katahi ahau ka kore e huna i ahau i tou mata.

21 Kia matara atu tou ringa ki tawhiti i ahau; a kaua ahau e whakawehia e te mataku ki a koe.

22 Ko reira, mau e karanga, a maku e whakao atu; maku ranei e korero, a mau e whakahoki kupu mai ki ahau.

23 Ka hia ra oku kino, oku hara? Meinga ahau kia matau ki toku he me toku hara.

24 He aha tou mata i huna ai e koe? He aha ahau i kiia ai e koe he hoariri?

25 E kapokapohia ranei e koe te pakawha e puhia haeretia ana? E whaia ranei e koe te papapa maroke?

26 Kei te tuhituhi na hoki koe i nga mea kawa moku, e mea ana hoki kia riro mai i ahau nga he o toku taitamarikitanga.

27 Karapitia iho e koe oku waewae ki te rakau, he mea tohu nau oku ara katoa, a he mea tuhi nau oku takahanga waewae tawhio noa:

28 Ahakoa toku rite kei te mea pirau, e memeha noa ana, kei te kakahu e kainga ana e te purehurehu.