1. “However, Job, please hear my speech,and listen to all my words.
2. See now, I have opened my mouth.My tongue has spoken in my mouth.
3. My words shall utter the uprightness of my heart.That which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
4. The Spirit of God has made me,and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
5. If you can, answer me.Set your words in order before me, and stand up.
6. Behold, I am towards God even as you are.I am also formed out of the clay.
7. Behold, my terror shall not make you afraid,neither shall my pressure be heavy on you.
8. “Surely you have spoken in my hearing,I have heard the voice of your words, saying,
9. ‘I am clean, without disobedience.I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me.
10. Behold, he finds occasions against me.He counts me for his enemy.
11. He puts my feet in the stocks.He marks all my paths.’
12. “Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just,for God is greater than man.