1"Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

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Job 4:12, Job 42:3, Job 42:6, Job 8:8, Job 8:10

2What you know, I know also. I am not inferior to you.

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Job 12:3, Job 12:3, 2 Corinthians 11:16, 2 Corinthians 11:18, 2 Corinthians 12:11

3"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

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Isaiah 41:21, Isaiah 41:21, Job 31:35, Job 13:22, Job 9:3

4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

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Psalms 119:69, Psalms 119:69, Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:22

5Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

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Proverbs 17:28, Proverbs 17:28, Job 13:13, Job 13:13, Ecclesiastes 5:3

6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

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Job 21:2, Job 21:3, Job 34:2, Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 8:7

7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

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Job 36:4, Job 36:4, Job 32:21, Job 32:22, Job 4:7

8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

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Proverbs 24:23, Proverbs 24:23, Malachi 2:9, Job 34:19, Exodus 23:2

9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

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Jeremiah 17:10, Galatians 6:7, Galatians 6:8, Jeremiah 17:10, Galatians 6:7

10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.

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James 2:9, James 2:9, Job 42:7, Job 42:8, Psalms 82:2

11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall on you?

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Job 31:23, Psalms 119:120, Job 31:23, Psalms 119:120, Matthew 10:28

12Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defenses are defenses of clay.

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Job 18:17, Psalms 34:16, Genesis 18:27, Psalms 102:12, Genesis 2:7

13"Be silent, leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

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Job 7:11, Job 7:11, Job 13:5, Job 21:3, Job 13:5

14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand?

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Judges 12:3, Judges 12:3, Psalms 119:109, Psalms 119:109, 1 Samuel 28:21

15Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

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Psalms 23:4, Psalms 23:4, Job 23:10, Job 23:10, Job 19:25

16This also shall be my salvation, that a godless man shall not come before him.

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Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:2, Psalms 118:21

17Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

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Job 33:1, Job 21:2, Job 13:6, Job 33:1, Job 21:2

18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.

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Job 23:4, Job 23:4, Job 9:2, Job 9:3, Job 9:2

19Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

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Isaiah 50:7, Isaiah 50:8, Isaiah 50:7, Isaiah 50:8, Jeremiah 20:9

20"Only do not do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

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Psalms 139:12, Genesis 3:8, Genesis 3:10, Revelation 6:15, Revelation 6:16

21withdraw your hand far from me; and do not let your terror make me afraid.

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Job 9:34, Psalms 39:10, Job 33:7, Job 9:34, Psalms 39:10

22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

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Job 14:15, Job 14:15, Job 38:3, Job 40:4, Job 40:5

23How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

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Psalms 139:23, Job 36:8, Job 36:9, Psalms 44:20, Psalms 44:21

24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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Job 19:11, Job 19:11, Psalms 13:1, Lamentations 2:5, Psalms 13:1

25Will you harass a driven leaf? Will you pursue the dry stubble?

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Job 21:18, Leviticus 26:36, Job 21:18, Leviticus 26:36, Isaiah 17:13

26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

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Psalms 25:7, Psalms 25:7, Proverbs 5:11, Proverbs 5:13, John 5:14

27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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Job 33:11, Job 33:11, Job 2:7, Job 16:9, 2 Chronicles 16:10

28though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

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Job 4:19, Psalms 39:11, Job 4:19, Psalms 39:11, Job 30:17