Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it.
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
14 Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
15 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
16 He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
17 Hear diligently my speech, and my declaration with your ears.
18 Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
19 Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.
20 Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
21 Withdraw thine hand far from me: and let not thy dread make me afraid.
22 Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
1Hwɛ, m'ani ahunu yeinom nyinaa, m'aso ate na ate aseɛ.Under pastoral review
2Deɛ monim no, me nso menim bi: menyɛ ketewa nsene mo.Under pastoral review
3Nokorɛm anka mɛkasa akyerɛ Otumfoɔ Panin, na mepɛ sɛ me ne Onyankopɔn di asɛm.Under pastoral review
4Nanso moyɛ atorɔ boafoɔ, mo nyinaa moyɛ ayaresafoɔ a mo so nni mfasoɔ.Under pastoral review
5Ao sɛ mo nyinaa bɛyɛ komm! na ɛbɛyɛ mo nyansa.Under pastoral review
6Afei tie m'akyinnyeɛ, na yɛ aso ma m'anofafa nkotosrɛ.Under pastoral review
7Mobɛka bɔne ama Onyankopɔn anaa? na moaka nnaadaasɛm ama no anaa?Under pastoral review
8Mobɛhwɛ n'anim anaa? mobɛko ama Onyankopɔn anaa?Under pastoral review
9Ɛyɛ sɛ ɔbɛhwehwɛ mo mu anaa? anaasɛ sɛdeɛ onipa di ɔfoforɔ fɛw no, saa na modi ne fɛw anaa?Under pastoral review
10Ampa ara ɔbɛka mo anim, sɛ mohwɛ nnipa anim wɔ kokoam a.Under pastoral review
11Ne kɛseyɛ renyɛ mo hu anaa? na ne ho suro rentɔ mo so anaa?Under pastoral review
12Mo nkaeɛ te sɛ nsõ, mo nipadua te sɛ dɔteɛ nipadua.Under pastoral review
13Monyɛ komm, monnyaa me, na menkasa, na deɛ ɛbɛba me so biara mmra.Under pastoral review
14Adɛn enti na mede me honam hyɛ me se mu, na mede me nkwa to me nsam?Under pastoral review
15Ɛwom sɛ ɔbɛkum me deɛ, nanso mede me ho bɛto no so: na mmom mɛka m'ankasa m'akwan ho asɛm wɔ n'anim.Under pastoral review
16Ɔno nso bɛyɛ me nkwagyeɛ: efisɛ nyaatwomni remmɛn n'anim.Under pastoral review
17Montie me kasa yie, na momfa mo aso ntie me daawuro.Under pastoral review
18Hwɛ afei, mahyehyɛ m'asɛm; menim sɛ wɔbɛbu me bem.Under pastoral review
19Hwan ne deɛ ɔne me bɛdi asɛm? efisɛ afei, sɛ meyɛ komm a, mɛgyaa me honhom.Under pastoral review
20Nneɛma mmienu pɛ na nyɛ mma me: ɛnneɛ merenhinta me ho mfiri wo hɔ.Under pastoral review
21Twe wo nsa firi me so kɔ akyiri: na mma wo ho suro nyɛ me hu.Under pastoral review
22Ɛnneɛ frɛ, na mɛgye so: anaasɛ ma menkasa, na wo nso bua me.Under pastoral review
23M'amumuyɛ ne me bɔne dodoɔ sɛn? ma menhunu me mmaratoɔ ne me bɔne.Under pastoral review
24Adɛn enti na wode w'anim hinta, na wobu me sɛ wo tamfoɔ?Under pastoral review
25Wobɛbubu ahahan a mframa bɔ no kɔ ne aba anaa? na wobɛtaa ɛserɛ wesee anaa?Under pastoral review
26Efisɛ wotwerɛ nneɛma a ɛyɛ nwononwono tia me, na woma me mmerantɛberɛ mu amumuyɛ yɛ me dea.Under pastoral review
27Wode me nan nso hyɛ nnua mu, na wohwɛ m'akwan nyinaa yie; wode agyiraeɛ to me nan ntiatiasoɔ so.Under pastoral review
28Na ɔno, sɛ adeɛ a aporɔ, sɛe, sɛ atadeɛ a nwewee awe.Under pastoral review