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.
11. He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
12. Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
13. Dost thou strive against him, because he hath not answered thee to all words?
14. God speaketh once, and repeateth not the selfsame thing the second time.
15. By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
16. Then he openeth the ears of men, and teaching instructeth them in what they are to learn.
17. That he may withdraw a man from the things he is doing, and may deliver him from pride.
18. Rescuing his soul from corruption: and his life from passing to the sword.
19. He rebuketh also by sorrow in the bed, and he maketh all his bones to wither.