1. Hear therefore, O Job, my speeches, and hearken to all my words.
2. Behold now I have opened my mouth, let my tongue speak within my jaws.
3. My words are from my upright heart, and my lips shall speak a pure sentence.
4. The spirit of God made me, and the breath of the Almighty gave me life.
5. If thou canst, answer me, and stand up against my face.
6. Behold God hath made me as well as thee, and of the same clay I also was formed.
7. But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
8. Now thou has said in my hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words:
9. I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
10. Because he hath found complaints against me, therefore he hath counted me for his enemy.